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		<title>Obama &#8216;Solves&#8217; Immigration Crisis by Ordering &#8216;Shields Down&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The catastrophic impact Obama's immigration power grab will have on America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6364423ec44b012d660f6a70670060f2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246042" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6364423ec44b012d660f6a70670060f2-417x350.jpg" alt="6364423ec44b012d660f6a70670060f2" width="311" height="261" /></a>That we live in a perilous era is hardly a headline &#8212; this is a well established fact.  America and Americans face an existential threat posed by terrorist organizations.  Additionally, huge quantities of heroin and cocaine have flooded across our borders, smuggled by pernicious drug trafficking organizations that have set up shop in communities across the United States.  There is a strong nexus between narcotics trafficking and narcotics use and crime, especially violent crime.</p>
<p>The tens of billions of dollars, the annual proceeds from the drug trade, flow into the coffers of transnational drug trafficking organizations and international terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>Finally, our nation&#8217;s economy continues to falter and struggle as do tens of millions of American workers and their families find that their incomes shrink as their expenses rise as more foreign workers enter the United States each month than the number of new jobs that are being created.</p>
<p>All of the above-noted issues have a clear nexus to failures of our nation to secure its borders and enforce the immigration laws effectively.  In point of fact our immigration laws were enacted with two primary goals, protect American lives and the jobs of American workers.</p>
<p>In point of fact, our borders and our immigration laws are supposed to shield America and Americans.  Given all of the threats and challenges confronting America and Americans those shields should never be more important.  However, you would never know it to listen to the President and, frankly, to all too many of our nation&#8217;s politicians from both sides of the political aisle in Washington and on the state and local levels.</p>
<p>On November 20, 2014 President Obama went before the cameras at the White House and laid out his plans to unilaterally “fix” the broken immigration system.  That there are millions of illegal aliens present in the United States indicates that our immigration system is failing.  That terrorists have been able to enter the United States and embed themselves in the United States provides further evidence of failures of the immigration system.  Consider, if you will, that the Tsarnaev brothers were able to gain lawful entry into the United States and apparently game the political asylum program. This provides a graphic example of a failure of that component of the immigration system.</p>
<p>“The Social Contract” published my article in its Summer 2013 edition, on how fraud in the political asylum program currently enables our enemies to see in America&#8217;s compassion, weakness. The title of my article was <span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_4/tsc_23_4_cutler.shtml">&#8220;Political Asylum: Where Compassion and National Security Intersect.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>What has never been explained, by President Obama or others who claim that the immigration system is <i>broken,</i> is how their proposals will greatly reduce the number of illegal aliens present in the United States.  What has never been explained is how the proposed “fixes” will create integrity to the processes by which aliens are granted visas or immigration benefits such as gaining lawful immigrant status or United States citizenship.  These are critical issues that were identified by the 9/11 Commission.</p>
<p>Traditionally when laws are violated our leaders call for enhanced enforcement efforts to combat and deter the crimes.  Because of concerns about those who have trespassed on New York City landmarks, Senator Chuck Schumer has proposed that a law be enacted that would subject those trespassers to a period of imprisonment of five years rather than the maximum of one year currently on the books.  He stated in part:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>“While individuals like this (trespassers) may have meant no harm, their acts put commuters and first responders at risk,” Schumer said. “They also inspire copycats who may have much more evil plans in mind.”</i></p>
<p><i>Critical infrastructure is defined by the Patriot Act as systems and assets so vital to the U.S., that the incapacity or destruction to them would have a debilitating effect.</i></p>
<p><i>“That would be a bridge, a power plant, the air vents to one of our tunnels,” Miller said.</i></p>
<p><i>Miller and Schumer said </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/13/sen-schumer-proposes-bill-to-make-trespassing-on-critical-infrastructure-a-federal-crime/"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>the new legislation</i></span></a><i> will help serve as a deterrent.</i></p>
<p><i>“When stunts like this occur, the New York City trespassing law has a maximum of one year and it’s often three months,” Schumer said. “That’s not enough punishment to deter this behavior. It’s time to change that.”</i></p>
<p><i>Schumer said this legislation is based on another federal law protecting railroads.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #011480;"><span style="color: #000000;">His statements were reported upon in an October 14, 2014 CBS News report, <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/14/mayor-de-blasio-heads-to-d-c-for-meetings-on-nyc-security-and-counter-terrorism/">&#8220;Mayor De Blasio Heads To D.C. For Meetings On NYC Security And Counter-Terrorism.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>However, Senator Chuck Schumer has been the staunchest advocate for providing a pathway to United States citizenship to illegal aliens who have trespassed on America by running our nation&#8217;s borders and evading the crucial screening process conducted by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors at ports of entry.  This serves to encourage, not deter, aliens to run our nation&#8217;s borders.</p>
<p>Where our broken immigration system is concerned, the obvious questions not being asked or answered is, “Where is the deterrent?”  “How is the lack of integrity in the immigration adjudications program being addressed?”</p>
<p>President Obama&#8217;s tone has been defiant, claiming that if members of Congress wanted to stop him from taking his actions that they should pass an immigration bill that he agreed with.  It was a stunning statement especially considering that Obama was a constitutional law instructor.  On numerous previous public appearances he made it clear that he did not have the authority to act alone to take the actions that he is now taking to deal with immigration.  Yet, for reasons never articulated, he has now made it clear that he will now do what he had previous claimed he lacked the legal authority to do.</p>
<p>He has also never explained how his actions would curtail future illegal immigration or address the recommendations and findings of the 9/11 Commission.  But then, these are critical questions that virtually no journalists have ever asked or members of the Republican Party have ever addressed, either.</p>
<p>Obama is attempting to extort immigration legislation by using the sort of “strong arm” technique of Tony Soprano rather than the conciliatory and constitutionally mandated technique befitting the President of the United States, who leads the most powerful democratic republic on the planet.</p>
<p>While the media has fixated on the procedural issues of whether or not what Obama is promising (threatening?) to do is within the bounds of his legal authority as the President of the United States, what has never been discussed to any great degree is the other procedural question &#8212; how would USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) implement this massive amnesty program involving millions of illegal aliens with even a sliver of integrity?</p>
<p>On November 30, 2013 Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) posted my commentary, <span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;Political Asylum Fraud: Where America&#8217;s Compassion Becomes Vulnerability&#8221;</span>that was predicated on a hard-hitting report posted by ABC News on November 20, 2013, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131"><span style="color: #386eff;">&#8220;Exclusive: US May Have Let &#8216;Dozens&#8217; of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p>The number one priority of the government of the United States is national security and, with it, public safety.  How on earth could the administration successfully administer that program in a manner that would not undermine national security and public safety?  Let us remember that America&#8217;s borders and immigration laws are its shields, its first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists, transnational criminals and other foreign nationals whose presence in the United States would undermine national security, public safety, public health or otherwise compromise the well-being of America and Americans.</p>
<p>On September 10, 2014 the New York Post published a disturbing report, <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/09/10/homeland-security-we-cant-stop-isis-from-coming-into-us/"><span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;Homeland Security: We can’t stop ISIS from coming into US.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p>Here is an important quote from this report:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>‘Terrorists could be just one visa-free flight away from arriving in the United States.’</i></p>
<p><i>-Rep. Candice Miller</i></p>
<p><i>Members of Congress cited estimates that 12,000 foreigners have traveled to Syria to engage in the civil war, including more than 1,000 Europeans and more than 100 Americans, with a dozen Americans believed to be fighting alongside ISIS.</i></p>
<p><i>“ISIS is a threat to the United States and to the people of the United States,” said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas).</i></p>
<p><i>“We may be reminded on 9/11 the count was approximately 19 who created the most heinous terrorist attack, killing more than 3,000.”</i></p>
<p><i>One Frenchman who trained with ISIS went to Brussels to murder four people at a Jewish museum in May, authorities say.</i></p>
<p><i>State Department and Homeland Security leaders said they’ve been working diligently with the tools at their disposal, including constantly upgrading border security procedures, reviewing the terror watch list and vetting visas.</i></p>
<p><i>“Though we currently have no credible information to indicate that ISIL is planning to attack the homeland, we remain concerned in the long term that their access to Westerners … will allow them to plan and coordinate attacks in the US,” Lasley said.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On November 10, 2014 Newsweek published a report about how the CIA is unable to effectively vet just 5,000 Syrians who claim to be moderates who want to help fight ISIS.  Realize that these are people who are in their country of citizenship and the CIA is able to conduct in-person interviews and are able to conduct investigations in the towns and villages where these people live, yet the vetting process is a disaster.  If it is virtually impossible to effectively screen 5,000 Syrians within their own country, how on earth could USCIS properly vet 5 million or, likely, many more aliens in the United States without an interview or field investigation?</p>
<p style="color: #011480;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Newsweek article, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/21/moderate-rebels-please-raise-your-hands-283449.html">&#8220;Inside the CIA&#8217;s Syrian Rebels Vetting Machine,&#8221;</a> begins with this passage:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i>Nothing has come in for more mockery during the Obama administration’s halting steps into the Syrian civil war than its employment of “moderate” to describe the kind of rebels it is willing to back. In one of the more widely cited japes, The New Yorker’s resident humorist, Andy Borowitz, presented a “Moderate Syrian Application Form,” in which applicants were asked to describe themselves as either “A) Moderate, B) Very moderate, C) Crazy moderate or D) Other.”</i></p>
<p><i>After Senator John McCain allegedly posed with Syrians “on our side” who turned out to be kidnappers—a report later called into question—Jon Stewart cracked, “Not everyone is going to be wearing their ‘HELLO I’M A TERRORIST’ name badge.”</i></p>
<p><i>Behind the jokes, however, is the deadly serious responsibility of the CIA and Defense Department to vet Syrians before they receive covert American training, aid and arms. But according to U.S. counterterrorism veterans, a system that worked pretty well during four decades of the Cold War has been no match for the linguistic, cultural, tribal and political complexities of the Middle East, especially now in Syria. “We’re completely out of our league,” one former CIA vetting expert declared on condition of anonymity, reflecting the consensus of intelligence professionals with firsthand knowledge of the Syrian situation. “To be really honest, very few people know how to vet well. It’s a very specialized skill. It’s extremely difficult to do well” in the best of circumstances, the former operative said. And in Syria it has proved impossible.</i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</a></span>was prepared by the staff that assisted the 9/11 Commission.  The preface of that document began with this paragraph:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>That report also detailed numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States, but to also embed themselves in the United States. Page 47 of this report noted:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It is significant to note that the Seasonal Agricultural Program, also known as the Special Agricultural Program (SAW), were major components of the 1986 amnesty and that New York&#8217;s then-Congressman Chuck Schumer was one of that program&#8217;s major architects even though there were absolutely no farms in his congressional district when he concocted it.</p>
<p>This paragraph is found on page 98 of the report, under the title “Immigration Benefits”:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The program that the administration is about to create violates the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission yet, incredibly, this issue is never raised in the mainstream media or members of either political party in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.</p>
<p>While Obama and others have stated that the program being by the administration would involve five million illegal aliens, there is no assurance that humongous as that number is might not quickly swell to double or triple that number.  In 1986 the Reagan administration predicted that roughly one million illegal aliens would participate in the amnesty program that was a part of the Immigration Reform and Control Act. By the time that the bureaucratic dust had settled between 3.5 and 4 million aliens had gained lawful status.</p>
<p>While the majority of these illegal aliens are not likely to have serious criminal histories or affiliations with terrorist organizations, the sheer magnitude of this program would create a monstrous haystack in which some truly deadly needles will easily be able to conceal themselves.  Because of the huge number of applications that will likely be filed, there would be no capacity to conduct routine face-to-face interviews with the applicants.  There would be no capacity to conduct routine field investigations to seek to verify information contained in the applications.</p>
<p>Furthermore, because of the huge number of applications and relatively sparse numbers of USCIS adjudications officers, applications will need to be processed quickly.  This raises yet another area of concern.  It takes just minutes for an adjudications officer to approve an application but may take hours, days or even weeks for those adjudicators to deny an application.  Adjudications Officers will be required to process a minimum number of applications per day or week to satisfy the standards established in their evaluations which are prepared periodically.  This will force these dedicated employees to be pressured to approve the great majority of the applications that they are given to adjudicate.</p>
<p>On November 1, 2013 CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization posted my commentary: <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/speed-kills-uscis">&#8220;Speed Kills at USCIS”</a></p>
<p>USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is the woebegone division of the DHS that would be tasked with administering this program. As it is, this beleaguered and inept agency cannot keep up with its workload without “rubber-stamping” approvals on many applications where this slipshod approach enables fraud to often go undetected.  It only takes minutes for an Adjudications Officer to approve an application for a benefit such as lawful status or citizenship, but it may require hours or days to deny an application.</p>
<p>The adjudications officers will be pressured to “get to yes” as was reported by the media about instructions given to these USCIS officials.  Furthermore, their evaluations contain productivity requirements (quotas).  A diligent adjudicator will find his/her career imperiled for not meeting quotas that all but preclude denying more than a very few applications.</p>
<p>I wrote an article about the plight of these officials in my article for CAPS, <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/immigration-bon-bon-factory"><span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;The Immigration Bon Bon Factory.&#8221;</span></a>  In my piece I noted that a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbNcQlzV-4"><span style="color: #011480;">hilarious episode of &#8220;I Love Lucy&#8221;</span></a> found the hapless Lucy and her comedic side-kick Ethel working in a candy factory and were assigned to wrap morsels of bon bons. They were unable to keep up with the pace of candy hurtling at them on a conveyor belt that started slowly but quickly accelerated to warp speed.  They were warned that if they failed to keep pace with the candy they would be fired.  To keep from losing their jobs they began stuffing the candy down their clothing and eating them, but to no avail.</p>
<p>While the situation Lucy and Ethel found themselves in were designed to entertain their audience, there is nothing amusing about the plight of the employees of USCIS or what it means for national security.</p>
<p>This is not just speculation on my part but is, in fact, based on the current reality in terms of how the hundreds of thousands of applications for DREAMERS are being adjudicated now.  Indeed, the approval rate for the DREAMERS under the DACA (Deferred Action- Childhood Arrivals) Program now exceeds 95%.</p>
<p>Because of this illegal aliens, who, for reasons only known to them, evaded the inspections process that is supposed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence would be problematic for America and Americans, will see an opportunity to secure lawful status and official identity documents by committing fraud that is most likely to go undetected.  Aliens will be able to succeed in lying about their identities, including potentially their true countries of citizenship.  They will also likely be able to successfully make false claims concerning their dates and methods of entry into the United States.</p>
<p>That these aliens evaded the inspections process is all but ignored in the media and in the statements made by our supposed political leaders.  Aliens who run our borders entered the United States by evading the inspections process conducted at ports of entry by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors that is supposed to prevent the entry of aliens into the United States whose presence would be dangerous to the safety and well-being of America and Americans.</p>
<p><span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</a></span><span style="color: #0d2f87;"> </span>enumerates the categories of aliens who are to be excluded. Among these classes are aliens who suffer from dangerous communicable diseases or extreme mental illness. Additionally convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, terrorists and spies are to be excluded, as well as aliens who would seek unlawful employment thus displacing American workers or driving down the wages of American workers who are similarly employed and aliens who would become public charges.</p>
<p>It should be obvious that aliens who evade that inspections process do so because they know that they belong to one or more categories of aliens who are to be prevented from entering the United States.  What is not obvious about these aliens is any information as to what would prevent them from being lawfully admitted.  There is no way to readily determine their true identities or backgrounds.  This means that they may successfully lie about their countries of citizenship as well as their names and dates of birth.  Their is no way to even know when or how they actually entered the United States.</p>
<p>The National Review Online posted an article that coincided with the New York Post Post article, <b> </b><span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/389829/isis-fighters-getting-caught-coming-across-us-mexican-border-jim-geraghty">&#8220;ISIS Fighters Getting Caught Coming Across the U.S.-Mexican Border?&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>Here is the text of this relatively short and disconcerting report:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>From the midweek edition of the </i><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>Morning Jolt</i></span></a><i>:</i></p>
<p><b><i>Say What? ‘At Least Ten ISIS Fighters Have Been Caught Coming Across the Border’</i></b></p>
<p><i>Rep. </i><a href="http://hunter.house.gov/"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>Duncan Hunter</i></span></a><i>, Republican of California, does not seem like a nut job or prone to wild exaggerations. But </i><a href="http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2014/10/stunner-rep-duncan-hunter-r-ca-ten-isis.html"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>last night he said something that should make jaws drop</i></span></a><i>:</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> Hold on. Stop for one second.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> They are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> Let me ask a question. You say that they are coming in the southern border, which changes all the dynamics Do you have any information that they are coming in through the southern border now?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> Yes.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> Tell me what you know.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> At least ten ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the border in Texas.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> How do you know that?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> Because I’ve asked the border patrol, Greta.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Van Susteren:</i></b><i> And the border patrol just let’s ISIS members come across the border?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Hunter:</i></b><i> No. They caught them at the border. Therefore, we know that ISIS is coming across the border. If they catch five or ten of them, you know that there are going to be dozens more that did not get caught by the border patrol. That’s how you know. That’s where we are at risk here, is from ISIS and radical Islamists coming across the border. Once again, they don’t have a navy, air force, nuclear weapons. The only way that Americans are going to be harmed by radical Islam — Chairman Dempsey said the same thing. He said that’s where the major threat is here, that’s how these guys are going to infiltrate through America and harm Americans.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Providing millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and official identity documents would not provide a deterrence to millions of aspiring illegal aliens from around the world and with the abject lack of integrity to the process, could potentially wind up with the additional consequences of providing terrorists with official identity documents in false names.</p>
<p>Mr. Obama&#8217;s plans could be the ultimate bad news.</p>
<p>Given the foregoing, Star Trek&#8217;s Captain James T. Kirk would likely command, “Shields up!”</p>
<p>Incomprehensibly, Mr. Obama is ordering just the opposite and the focus of attention of the media and politicians from both parties is solely on whether or not the President&#8217;s executive orders are constitutional, certainly a major issue.  However, what is being ignored is the impact this will have on our nation and our citizens in this particularly perilous era.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deceptive tactics the Left uses to undermine border security. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/51533286_custom-d3a6c58e870df3bee1f4b9bd0ce279d571233bb3-s6-c30.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243982" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/51533286_custom-d3a6c58e870df3bee1f4b9bd0ce279d571233bb3-s6-c30-450x296.jpg" alt="51533286_custom-d3a6c58e870df3bee1f4b9bd0ce279d571233bb3-s6-c30" width="307" height="202" /></a>On October 22, 2014 CBS News, New York posted a brief report, <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/22/city-council-bill-seeks-to-protect-jailed-immigrants-from-feds/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;City Council Votes For Bills To Protect Jailed Immigrants From Feds.&#8221;</span></a> This report illustrates the unholy alliance forged between many politicians and news agencies to skew the truth about immigration. The article begins with this excerpt:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><b><i>NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)</i></b><i> — Bills passed by the City Council Wednesday aim to </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/02/lawmakers-to-introduce-legislation-to-only-honor-immigration-detainers-with-federal-warrant/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>keep detained immigrants from being deported by the federal government</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The City Council voted in favor of the legislation 41-6 Wednesday.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>As WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported, the measures, supported by </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/09/18/nyc-municipal-id-cards-to-offer-free-incentives/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>Mayor Bill de Blasio</i></span></a><i>, would prohibit correction officials and police from handing over detainees to immigration officials.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The report went on to note:</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>The law will only allow the city to honor the detainer if the subject has been convicted of a violent or serious felony in the last five years or if the person is a possible match on the federal terrorist watchlist,” she said.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The bill would also shutter the federal immigration office </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/22/ap-rikers-island-deaths-suggest-poor-medical-treatment-of-inmates/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>on Rikers Island</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">First of all, let&#8217;s consider that the title of the CBS article incorporates the phrase, “Protect the Jailed Immigrants From the Feds.” There are two key words that paint a deceptive image and both evoke a strong emotional response and virtually create the illusion that the efforts to impede the effective enforcement of our immigration laws against aliens who have been arrested for allegedly committing crimes is no less than <i>heroic.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The term “protect” is a term that engenders a sense of an appropriate action taken to make certain that no harm comes to someone, especially an innocent person. Police departments around the United States adopted the phrase “to protect and serve” as their mission statement. In considering this infuriating news report, the question that must be asked is: “Who is being protected and who is being served?”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our nation&#8217;s borders and our immigration laws are America&#8217;s first line of defense and last line of defense to protect America and Americans from aliens whose presence poses a threat to the safety and well-being of our nation and our citizens.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our immigration laws are utterly blind as to race, religion or ethnicity and were enacted to achieve two primary goals: <i>protect</i> innocent lives and <i>protect</i> the jobs of American workers. While the CBS report focuses on how the majority of the members of the City Council are seeking to protect illegal aliens who have been arrested from being deported, the article neglects to mention that this proposed action would fail to protect Americans and others present in the United States by blocking ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents from being able to identify and take into custody aliens who are subject to being removed (deported) from the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It would be wrong-headed to shield any illegal alien from detection by ICE (although ICE is no longer mounting a meaningful effort to enforce our immigration laws). However, in this instance we have the great majority of the members of the NYC Counsel seeking to prevent the removal of aliens who have been arrested by the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The term “immigrant” as used in the headline is currently being used deceptively throughout the United States to describe all foreign nationals (aliens) who are present in the United States, irrespective of their status. The term “alien” has come to be (falsely) equated with a slur, not unlike the “n-word.” In reality, under the immigration laws of the United States, which are encompassed within the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the term <i>alien</i> simply means, “any person, not a citizen or national of the United States.” There is no insult of any sort in that definition &#8212; only clarity. Clarity is something that must be avoided at all costs when a con artist attempts to swindle his (her) intended victim. This is no different from the dreaded and infamous “small print” contained in contracts designed to confuse the person signing the contract to get them to agree to terms that they would never knowingly agree to.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">By using the term “immigrant” to describe all aliens present in the United States it then becomes easy to talk about the wonderful contributions that immigrants have made to the United States. After all, they remind us, “We are a nation of immigrants!” Of course this fails to note that among illegal aliens are criminals, fugitives from justice in foreign countries and others whose presence is harmful or even dangerous.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">By hammering away at the lie that all aliens should be deemed “immigrants” immigration anarchists have set the stage to label as “anti-immigrant” anyone of wanting our borders to be secured against those who would evade the inspections process that is supposed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence would pose a threat to national security, public safety, public health or otherwise be detrimental to the well-being of America and/or Americans. They go on to attack anyone seeking effective immigration law enforcement branding them “bigots,” “racists” and “nativists.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In my effort to provide clarity to this issue I have come to say that the difference between an immigrant and an illegal alien is comparable to the difference between a houseguest and a burglar. It is not anti-social or uncharitable for a person to lock his (her) doors at night to make certain that burglars or criminals do not enter their homes as they sleep. It is only prudent and commonsense.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In point of fact, our immigration laws not only establish the grounds by which aliens are to be prevented from entering the United States and the grounds under which aliens should be deported from the United States, but also establish the lawful means by which more than one million aliens legally immigrate to the United States, are granted Alien Registration Receipt Cards and are immediately placed on the pathway to United States citizenship. These laws also provide for the naturalization of hundreds of thousands of lawful immigrants each year, conferring United States citizenship upon them.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Furthermore, the most likely victims of crimes committed by transnational criminals are the members of the ethnic immigrant communities of the same origins of the criminal aliens. This holds true for all ethnic communities, not just from Latin America. As an INS agent I investigated and arrested many such individuals from countries around the world.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Therefore, how on earth can supporting the effective enforcement and administration of our immigration laws constitute an anti-immigrant position?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let us briefly revisit the notion of “protecting immigrants” as noted in the headline. The more appropriate phrase should be “shielding and harboring.” Theses terms appear in the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that addresses alien smuggling.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Consider that under <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324"><span style="color: #386eff;">8 USC § 1324 &#8211; Bringing in and harboring certain aliens</span></a>, a section of law that is comprehended within the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), it is a felony to aid, abet, encourage or induce aliens to enter our country illegally or remain in our country illegally and a crime to harbor, shield or conceal such aliens from detection.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is an excerpt from that section of law:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) Offenses</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Harboring &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it an offense for any person who &#8212; knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals harbors, shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Encouraging/Inducing &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) makes it an offense for any person who &#8212; encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Conspiracy/Aiding or Abetting &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(v) expressly makes it an offense to engage in a conspiracy to commit or aid or abet the commission of the foregoing offenses.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">On February 25, 2014 Californians for Population Stabilization published my article <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/nyc-mayor-determined-give-illegal-aliens-id-cards"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;NYC Mayor Determined to Give Illegal Aliens ID Cards&#8221;</span></a> that addressed the program being created by New York City&#8217;s Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide illegal aliens with identity documents, violating commonsense and the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commmission.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I focused on the nexus between immigration and the threat of terrorism and how the creation of “sanctuary cities” undermines national security in my September 24, 2014 article for FrontPage Magazine, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-cutler/sanctuary-cities-or-safe-havens-for-terrorists/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">‘Sanctuary Cities’ or ‘Safe Havens’ for Terrorists?</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What is truly incomprehensible is how New York Senator Chuck Schumer recently railed against those who have trespassed on important landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the new World Trade Center Tower. Consider the October 14, 2014 CBS News report on de Blasio heading to Washington to participate in meetings focusing on city security and counter-terrorism, <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/14/mayor-de-blasio-heads-to-d-c-for-meetings-on-nyc-security-and-counter-terrorism/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Mayor De Blasio Heads To D.C. For Meetings On NYC Security And Counter-Terrorism.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The article noted that the meetings would be held the day after, “<a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/13/schumer-wants-tougher-bridge-trespassing-laws/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Sen. Charles Schumer</span></a> proposed making trespassing on critical infrastructure like major bridges or important buildings punishable by up to five years in prison.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is the brief report in its entirety:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><b><i>NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) –</i></b><i> Mayor Bill de Blasio is heading to Washington, D.C. Tuesday for meetings about city security and counter-terrorism.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>De Blasio, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism John Miller are set to meet with the heads of Homeland Security and the FBI.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The meeting comes a day after </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/13/schumer-wants-tougher-bridge-trespassing-laws/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>Sen. Charles Schumer</i></span></a><i> proposed making trespassing on critical infrastructure like major bridges or important buildings punishable by up to five years in prison.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The proposal was made in the wake of several recent trespassing cases in the city.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Over the summer, two German artists climbed the Brooklyn Bridge, switching the American flags with white washed versions.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Berlin-based Mischa Leinkauf and Mattias Wermke said they replaced the flags on top of the bridge </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/08/bratton-says-nypd-has-idea-of-who-was-involved-in-brooklyn-bridge-flag-swap/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>with bleached-out versions</i></span></a><i> as a tribute to public art.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>The stuntman placed aluminum pans over the floodlights to keep them from being seen and for awhile, it was scary,” Schumer said Monday.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>A Russian tourist was then arrested in August after </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/09/19/russian-tourist-facing-charges-for-climbing-brooklyn-bridge-signs-up-for-community-service/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>climbing the Brooklyn Bridge</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Yaroslav Kolchin was seen walking back and forth on the landing, taking photos with his iPhone, police said. They said once a police aviation unit was hovering at an altitude next to the tower, Kolchin began to descend safely down the same way he had climbed up.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>He was met by police at the security gate, where he was taken into custody without further incident.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Also in August, an activist group </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/08/20/police-investigate-after-palestinian-protest-flag-is-unfurled-on-manhattan-bridge/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>unfurled a Palestinian flag</i></span></a><i> on the span of the Manhattan Bridge.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>In March, 16-year-old Justin Casquejo was charged after climbing to the top of the World Trade Center. He </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/07/30/nj-teen-pleads-guilty-in-1-world-trade-center-climb/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>admitted in July to breaking a city misdemeanor law</i></span></a><i> against scaling tall buildings without permission.</i></p>
<p style="color: #1255cc;"><span style="color: #232323;"><i>About a week after his trade center climb, </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/port-authority-wtc-parachute-jump-lawless-selfish/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>three extreme-skydiving fans were arrested for a leap off the tower last year.</i></span></a></span></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>While individuals like this may have meant no arm, their acts put commuters and first responders at risk,” Schumer said. “They also inspire copycats who may have much more evil plans in mind.”</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Critical infrastructure is defined by the Patriot Act as systems and assets so vital to the U.S., that the incapacity or destruction to them would have a debilitating effect.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>That would be a bridge, a power plant, the air vents to one of our tunnels,” Miller said.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Miller and Schumer said </i><a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10/13/sen-schumer-proposes-bill-to-make-trespassing-on-critical-infrastructure-a-federal-crime/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>the new legislation</i></span></a><i> will help serve as a deterrent.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>When stunts like this occur, the New York City trespassing law has a maximum of one year and it’s often three months,” Schumer said. “That’s not enough punishment to deter this behavior. It’s time to change that.”</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Schumer said this legislation is based on another federal law protecting railroads.</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">This is the same Schumer who, as a member of the “Gang of Eight,” has championed providing a pathway to United States citizenship for millions of illegal aliens who evaded the vital inspections process designed to prevent the entry of aliens who would pose a threat to public health, public safety and, indeed, national security by <b><i>trespassing</i></b> on the United States. There can be no greater example of a lack of mouth-ear coordination than that demonstrated by Mr. Schumer.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In case you missed it, this is the next to last paragraph of the news report, quoting Schumer:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>When stunts like this occur, the New York City trespassing law has a maximum of one year and it’s often three months,” Schumer said. “That’s not enough punishment to deter this behavior. It’s time to change that.”</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Schumer&#8217;s own ears apparently are unable to hear the words he utters from his own mouth when the issue of immigration is raised. Clearly, he understands that undesired behavior can be deterred by tougher laws coupled with tougher enforcement, particularly where the crime of trespassing is concerned.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Schumer, however, is hardly the only politician to be afflicted with a lack of mouth-ear coordination. On September 27, 2012 New York City&#8217;s then mayor, Michael Bloomberg, was the focus of a New York Post article, <a href="http://nypost.com/2012/09/27/bloomberg-blasts-bronx-da-for-not-prosecuting-trespassing-arrests/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Bloomberg blasts Bronx DA for not prosecuting trespassing arrests.&#8221;</span></a> It must be pointed out that Bloomberg continued the immigration sanctuary policies of the previous administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The continuing sanctuary policies were, in fact, the subject of a hearing conducted by the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims on February 27, 2003 on the topic, <a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju85287.000/hju85287_0f.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;New York City&#8217;s &#8216;Sanctuary&#8217; Policy and the Effect of Such Policies on Public Safety, Law Enforcement and Immigration.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I was one of the witnesses called to testify at that hearing, more than a decade ago. As the saying goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We are continually told that the immigration system is broken. The reality is that what is broken is the moral compass of this administration and all too many politicians. The administration lacks the will to effectively secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws and follow the advice Schumer provided concerning trespassing: increase the penalties for such crimes and effectively enforce the laws.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">There is an old Yiddish expression that translated declares, “When the fish goes bad, it smells from the head!” The lack of moral leadership in Washington permeates our nation and is being felt from coast to coast and border to border.</p>
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		<title>Every American Must See &#8216;The Border States of America&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exposing the human toll of the border crisis. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aaaunnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243400" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aaaunnamed-233x350.jpg" alt="aaaunnamed" width="210" height="315" /></a>Today we will focus our attention on the US/Mexican border and seek to determine just how secure that border is. On October 16, 2014 the Tea Party Patriots released a hard-hitting documentary, <span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="https://www.teapartypatriots.org/theborderstates/">&#8220;The Border States of America.”</a> </span>The subtitle of this film makes the importance and relevance of the immigration crisis clear to all Americans in each and every state: “Every State Is Now a Border State.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The documentary is available online for free (although contributions are welcome). It is a must-see film that will lay waste to any claim that our border is secure. I am proud to appear in this important film.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Please make certain to forward my article about this important film to as many folks as you can &#8212; it is vital that we provide as many of our fellow Americans with the unvarnished truth. I am attempting to create a “Bucket Brigade of Truth!”</p>
<p style="color: #1255cc;"><span style="color: #232323;">On October 13, 2014 Breitbart published an article about the film, &#8220;&#8216;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/13/Border-States-Of-America"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Border States Of America’: New Documentary To Highlight Insecure Border, Rampant Lawlessness In America</span></a></span><span style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #232323;">.&#8221;</span><i></i></span></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is how the article begins:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><i>A new documentary from the Tea Party Patriots will highlight the insecure border with Mexico, featuring interviews with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Reps. Steve King (R-IA) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and scores of law enforcement officials who serve along the entire U.S. border with Mexico.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>The documentary, titled “</i><a href="https://www.teapartypatriots.org/theborderstates/"><span style="color: #386eff;"><i>Border States of America</i></span></a><i>,” is hosted by Nick Searcy—a star from the FX television series Justified where he plays a U.S. Marshal.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>“Every day brings another example of the disastrous consequences of open borders and amnesty,” Tea Party Patriots president Jenny Beth Martin said in a statement about the documentary. “First, it was a humanitarian wave of crime and disease, now suspected terrorists are being apprehended with who knows how many slipping through; and of course there’s now the question of Ebola. Border States of America with Nick Searcy is a must-watch for those who care about the Republic&#8217;s security and sovereignty.”</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>In the statement, Searcy said that this is something that should concern every American.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>&#8220;Every American who locks the house at night should care about this. The rest of you should keep your house open. Somebody might need something,” Searcy said.</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Border security is a key issue that has been debated by politicians from both parties for a number of years. The Obama administration has insisted that the border that is <i>supposed</i> to separate the United States from Mexico has never been more secure.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Many of these politicians have established achieving “border security” as a pre-requisite to implementing a massive amnesty program to provide unknown millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and, of necessity, the official identity documents to provide evidence of such lawful status having been conferred on these aliens whose identities, backgrounds, actual dates of entry and reasons for violating our borders and our laws will, almost invariably be forever unknown and unknowable.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I have written extensively about the extreme dangers that such a program would create for America and Americans, making it clear that there is far more to be considered in addressing the failures of the immigration system that have so profoundly impacted America and Americans by undermining national security, public safety, public health and, in general the well-being of Americans in every city and state from coast to coast and border to border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On July 7, 2014 FrontPage Magazine published my article <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-cutler/border-security-and-the-immigration-colander/"><span style="color: #386eff;">&#8220;Border Security and the Immigration Colander&#8221;</span></a> in which I discussed the myriad components of the immigration system and how all of these components are failing to provide for the safety and security and well-being of the United States and its citizens.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On August 2, 2012 Fox News Latino posted my Op-Ed piece, <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/08/02/drawing-line-on-national-security-from-time-to-time-is-it-time-for-moat-and/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Opinion: Drawing The Line On National Security.&#8221;</span></a> In my article I took on the issue of border security and the false claims made by the Obama administration about how secure America&#8217;s southern border actually was.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is an excerpt of my article which includes an outrageous statement made by Obama as he stood before an audience in El Paso, Texas on May 10, 2011:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">On May 10, 2011, President Obama addressed a crowd in El Paso, Texas, a city that&#8217;s located just north of what is arguably Mexico&#8217;s most violent city, Ciudad Juarez, where he said in part:</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>&#8220;…We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement. All the stuff they asked for, we&#8217;ve done. But even though we&#8217;ve answered these concerns, I suspect there will be some who will try to move the goal posts one more time (someone in the crowd yells &#8216;racists!&#8217;).&#8221;</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>&#8220;They said we need to triple the border patrol. Or now they’ll say we need to quadruple the border patrol. Or they’ll want a higher fence. Maybe they&#8217;ll need a moat. Maybe they want alligators in the moat! They&#8217;ll never be satisfied, and I understand that. That&#8217;s politics. But the truth is the measures we&#8217;ve put in place are getting results.&#8221;</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">That event and the President&#8217;s remarks were noted in a news report, <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/05/10/obama-republicans-want-moat-alligators-border"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Obama: Republicans Want a &#8216;Moat&#8217; With &#8216;Alligators&#8217; on the Border,&#8221;</span></a> posted by Fox News that day that included the unforgettable and, indeed, <i>unforgivable</i> statement that those who are not satisfied with the state of border security perhaps would want a moat with alligators to be installed along the border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is beyond belief that the President of the United States would gleefully ridicule American citizens whose concerns about border security are, as the documentary makes abundantly clear, entirely justified. Failures in border security cost American lives each and every day.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">America&#8217;s borders are its first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists, transnational criminals and dangerous communicable diseases.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In point of fact, aliens whose presence in the United States would create these three threats to national security, public safety and public health are among the categories of excludible aliens as delineated in <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/USCODE-2011-title8/USCODE-2011-title8-chap12-subchapII-partII-sec1182/content-detail.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</span></a>. That list of excludible aliens also includes aliens who suffer from extreme mental illness and are prone to violence or are sex offenders, aliens who have been previously deported, are convicted felons or are fugitives from justice. Additionally, aliens who are human rights violators, war criminals, spies and terrorists are also deemed excludible, as are aliens who would become public charges or work illegally, thereby displacing Americans in the workforce or causing wages or working conditions to be adversely impacted.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The first paragraph found in the preface of the <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_terrtrav_monograph.pdf">&#8220;9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel&#8221;</a> </span>echoes the true significance of border security, including the process by with visas are issued to foreign nationals (aliens) seeking entry into the United States. Here is that first paragraph:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">“<i>It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.”</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">When you watch the film I want you to think about that paragraph from the 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I also want you to give some thought to something else &#8212; just as the claims of border security are false, so too are any claims by the administration that applications filed by aliens seeking immigration benefits, including the granting of political asylum, resident alien status and even United States citizenship, are being effectively screened to protect America and Americans.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">My parents taught me that I would teach people how to treat me by demonstrating what I was willing to accept from those who dealt with me. Our political “leaders” have become emboldened to act against the best interests of America and Americans to satisfy their campaign contributors &#8212; in essence turning those campaign contributions into legal bribes. We have ourselves to blame.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As Americans we not only have the right, but the obligation to ourselves, our fellow Americans, our children and their children to stand up and be heard. The immigration crisis is not about “Left” or “Right” but about right or wrong.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aborder.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242409" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/aborder.jpg" alt="aborder" width="290" height="192" /></a>The open borders/amnesty advocates whom I have come to refer to as the “immigration anarchists,” regularly complain bitterly that Ellis Island was closed. Indeed, Ellis Island was closed on November 12, 1954. However, this hardly meant that the United States was no longer permitting aliens to be legally admitted into the United States which was the message that I suspect those bemoaning the closing of that government facility wanted people to infer.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The reality is that while Ellis Island had nearly 70 years ago, other ports of entry scattered across the United States were open and facilitating the entry of aliens into the United States. These ports of entry are to be found along both the northern and southern borders of the United States, at seaports along the coastlines of the United States and at international airports. This coincides with a point I have often made about the United States having 50 “border states.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Last year approximately one million aliens were lawfully admitted into the United States by presenting themselves for inspection at those numerous ports of entry and provided with Alien Registration Receipt Cards (also known as “Green Cards”) to signify their lawful immigrant status in accordance with the alien registration requirement of the Immigration and Nationality Act. These aliens, from virtually every country on this planet, were, upon their day of being granted lawful immigrant status, immediately placed on the pathway to United States citizenship. The number of aliens who were lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States was greater than the number of all immigrants legally admitted by all other countries around the world.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">So much for the wailing about the shuttering of Ellis Island!</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">However, what is almost never discussed by anyone &#8212; especially the immigration anarchists, is that Ellis Island was a <i>quarantine station</i> that was operated by the United States Public Health Service in conjunction with immigration authorities. The fact is that the inspection facility was intentionally located on an island of the shore of New York City to make certain that aliens could not set foot on the U.S. mainland unless they were admitted into the United States and transported to the mainland. This was done to make certain that aliens who suffered dangerous communicable diseases could not sneak into the United States and create an epidemic.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Recently the hospital located at the Ellis Island complex of buildings has opened as a new exhibit at the Ellis Island Museum. CNN published a report about the hospital on October 1, 2014 with the appropriate title, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/01/business/ellis-island-hospital-art-exhibition/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;New York&#8217;s hospital of immigrants: Where hope and pain collide.&#8221;</span></a> The timing of the opening of that component of the museum at Ellis Island could not have come at a more appropriate time.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Concerns about the potential for dangerous diseases crossing our borders have been tremendously elevated in the wake of the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa that has reach historic proportions and with the discovery that a Liberian citizen, Thomas Eric Duncan, had traveled to the United States by commercial airline flight and lied about his exposure to patients who were suffering from the Ebola virus.</p>
<p style="color: #1255cc;"><span style="color: #232323;">The October 3, 2014 report, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/02/health/ebola-us/index.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Ebola patient&#8217;s leaving Liberia was &#8216;unpardonable,&#8217; its President says,&#8221;</span></a> provided some important details.</span></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is how the report begins:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><b><i>(CNN)</i></b><i> &#8212; Days before he became the first person diagnosed with Ebola on American soil, Thomas Eric Duncan answered &#8220;no&#8221; to questions about whether he had cared for a patient with the deadly virus.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Before leaving Liberia, Duncan also answered no to a question about whether he had touched the body of someone who died in an area affected by the disease, said Binyah Kesselly, board chairman of the Liberia Airport Authority.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>Witnesses say Duncan had been helping Ebola patients in Liberia. Liberian community leader Tugbeh Chieh Tugbeh said Duncan was caring for an Ebola-infected patient at a residence in Paynesville City, just outside Monrovia.</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">That single lie on that piece of paper was all that was needed for Duncan to board that airliner and enter the United States through a port of entry, potentially putting countless lives in the United States at risk.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The immigration inspections process conducted by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) inspectors is supposed to prevent entry of aliens who pose a threat to national security and the safety and well-being of Americans. For this vital mission to succeed, our borders must be made truly secure to make certain that aliens cannot evade that inspections process.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The list of such aliens is contained in the following section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA): <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Title 8 U.S. Code § 1182 &#8211; Inadmissible aliens</span></a>. It includes various grounds of excludability including criminals, spies, terrorists, human rights violators and others. None of the grounds of excludability make any reference to race, religion or ethnicity. What is not generally known however, is that the list of these grounds for exclusion begin with public health concerns.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is how this section of law begins:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">(a) <b>Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(1) <b>Health-related grounds</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(A) <b>In general</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Any alien—</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(i) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance; <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182#FN-1"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><sup>[1]</sup></span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(ii) except as provided in subparagraph (C), who seeks admission as an immigrant, or who seeks adjustment of status to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who has failed to present documentation of having received vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases, which shall include at least the following diseases: mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, influenza type B and hepatitis B, and any other vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices,</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(iii) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Attorney General)—</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(I) to have a physical or mental disorder and behavior associated with the disorder that may pose, or has posed, a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others, or</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(II) to have had a physical or mental disorder and a history of behavior associated with the disorder, which behavior has posed a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others and which behavior is likely to recur or to lead to other harmful behavior, or</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(iv) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to be a drug abuser or addict, is inadmissible.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(B) <b>Waiver authorized</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">For provision authorizing waiver of certain clauses of subparagraph (A), see subsection (g) of this section.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(C) <b>Exception from immunization requirement for adopted children 10 years of age or younger</b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a child who—</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(i) is 10 years of age or younger,</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(ii) is described in subparagraph (F) or (G) of section <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1101"><span style="color: #1255cc;">1101</span></a> <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/usc_sec_08_00001101----000-#b_1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">(b)(1)</span></a> of this title; <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182#FN-1"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><sup>[1]</sup></span></a>and</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">(iii) is seeking an immigrant visa as an immediate relative under section <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1151"><span style="color: #1255cc;">1151</span></a> <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/usc_sec_08_00001151----000-#b"><span style="color: #1255cc;">(b)</span></a> of this title,</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">if, prior to the admission of the child, an adoptive parent or prospective adoptive parent of the child, who has sponsored the child for admission as an immediate relative, has executed an affidavit stating that the parent is aware of the provisions of subparagraph (A)(ii) and will ensure that, within 30 days of the child’s admission, or at the earliest time that is medically appropriate, the child will receive the vaccinations identified in such subparagraph.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">All sorts of proposals to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus to the United States have been made by our political leaders including ending flights from countries in which patients suffering from Ebola have been found, including Liberia and Sierra Leone, where according to some reports, the Ebola virus is spreading like “wild fire.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Of course people who are determined to leave those countries will likely manage to cross the borders of neighboring countries, potentially further spreading this deadly disease, and then seeking to board airliners for flights to the United States and other countries.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Recommendations are being made about how CBP inspectors and other government officials should modify the inspections process at ports of entry. Certainly this makes sense. However, no matter how effective the screening process may be at America&#8217;s ports of entry, we need to remember that our nation&#8217;s borders exist on maps but not in the “real world.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our nation has, as I have noted on ever so many occasions, 50 “border states.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our borders must be made secure against those who would smuggle aliens and contraband into the United States. In addition to concern about narcotics and weapons into the United States, even seemingly prosaic substances as meat may provide a deadly threat.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On August 21, 2014 Newsweek Magazine published a worrying report, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Smuggled+Bushmeat+Is+Ebola's+Back+Door+to+America&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;channel=np&amp;source=hp"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Smuggled Bushmeat Is Ebola&#8217;s Back Door to America.&#8221;</span></a> Talk about the expression that “One man&#8217;t meat is another&#8217;s poison.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">High-ranking officials of the DHS of both the Bush and Obama administrations repeatedly claimed our “borders are secure” while blithely ignoring the massive tsunami of illegal aliens entering the United States each day along with record quantities of narcotics which provide an irrefutable metric that makes the failures of border security crystal clear. The United States is in the midst of the worst heroin epidemic in decades &#8212; perhaps ever. Police departments across the United States have taken to the unprecedented measure of providing their officers with the antidote to heroin overdoses.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Heroin and cocaine are not produced in the United States. If our borders were truly secure those substances could not get into the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">For years our politicians and even high-ranking officials of the DHS have claimed that running our borders is not a crime. The reality is, of course, far different.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While it is true that the first time an alien evades the inspections process and, in the jargon of immigration enforcement personnel is an EWI (<b>E</b>ntrant <b>W</b>ithout <b>I</b>nspection), an alien who has been previously deported and then unlawfully re-enters the United States is most definitely committing a felony. The provisions of this section of the Immigration and Nationality Act are contained in <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1326"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Title 8 U.S. Code § 1326 &#8211; Reentry of removed aliens</span></a>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Under this statute, the maximum penalty a previously deported aliens faces if he (she) has no criminal history and illegally re-enters the United States is 2 years in federal custody. However, an alien who was deported subsequent to being convicted of committing “aggravated felonies” faces a maximum of 20 years in a federal prison. Certainly any crime that carries a 20-year maximum penalty is a very serious crime, indeed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I am particularly proud of that last violation of law; in the early 1980s I worked with then-U.S. Senator Al D&#8217;Amato to create that particular law and took special delight in making the first arrest of an alien (a convicted narcotics dealer) for violating that statute.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Today&#8217;s concerns about our borders being breached by transnational criminals and international terrorists from al-Qaeda, ISIS or Khorasan have been expanded to people entering the United States who are infected with the Ebola virus and other such contagious diseases that are truly the stuff of nightmares. These concerns may even transcend the issue of whether or not an alien evading the inspections process is committing a crime. Given the current circumstances, the bigger issue may turn out to be whether or not by malevolent intent in the case of criminals or terrorists or by being infected with a deadly communicable disease, an alien&#8217;s ability to evade the inspections process may result in massive numbers of casualties in the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Our leaders, including event the most ardent open borders advocates, must finally accept the reality that our borders, no matter where they are to be found, are our first and last line of defense against criminals, terrorists and deadly epidemics.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Given the magnitude of the dangers, where our borders are concerned, “secure enough” is not secure enough.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cutler]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sanctuary.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-241624" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sanctuary.jpg" alt="sanctuary" width="241" height="186" /></a>Since the deadly terror attacks of 1993 at the CIA and the World Trade Center, there have been a series of terror attacks attempted inside the United States by radical Islamists.</p>
<p>On September 11, 2001 our nation suffered the worst terror attacks ever carried out within the borders of our country.</p>
<p>Every one of these attacks had something in common: The perpetrators were all aliens who had managed to gain entry into the United States and managed to hide in plain sight, or in the jargon of the 9/11 Commission, they embedded themselves in our country as they went about their deadly preparations.</p>
<p>Our borders and our immigration laws are our first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists who seek to attack America and Americans. Yet this essential fact is blithely ignored by the president, members of his administration, members of Congress who seek to implement a variant of “comprehensive immigration reform” and local and state politicians who proudly proclaim that they have created “sanctuaries” for aliens who have run our borders or violated the terms of their admission into the United States and have violated those critical immigration laws.</p>
<p>On Friday, September 19th, I was a guest on &#8220;America&#8217;s Forum&#8221; on <a href="http://www.newsmaxtv.com/">Newsmax TV</a><span style="color: #386eff;"><b> </b></span>hosted by former Congressional Representative JD Hayworth. NewsMax posted a video of my segment with a synopsis of our discussion. The title of this article was: <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/safe-haven-terrorists-New-York-deBlasio/2014/09/19/id/595740/">&#8220;Michael Cutler: Sanctuary Cities Are Safe Havens for Terrorists.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The starting point for my interview was an important news report that contained a video clip of an interview that Rep. Jason Chaffetz participated in with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly. The title of the report was: <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/breaking-islamist-terrorists-captured-on-us-border-on-september-10-day-before-9-11-video/">&#8220;BREAKING: Four Terrorists Captured on US Border on September 10 – Day Before 9-11.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The video clip of the Chaffetz interview on Kelly&#8217;s program also contained a brief video of an exchange between Congressman Chaffetz and Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security at a hearing conducted earlier that day. The exchange was infuriating. At first Johnson stated that he was not aware of terrorists running our borders. Rep. Chaffetz then confronted Secretary Johnson, saying that there was information that four terrorists had been apprehended attempting to run our borders at two locations along the U.S./Mexican border. Johnson became extremely uncomfortable and started rubbing his face and all but twitching in his seat. He then claimed that he had heard about it but that they were trying to confirm the information. Next Chaffetz asked Johnson about what level of “operational control” DHS has over the U.S./Mexican border. Johnson said he did not know, whereupon Chaffetz stated that he had information that at present there is 6% operation control.</p>
<p>Secretary Johnson simply stared blankly at Representative Chaffetz.</p>
<p>If DHS has just 6% of “operational control” then we must presume that conversely we have a 94% free-for-all along that critical border. Indeed, the fact that our nation is currently suffering from a flood of heroin that is so severe that police departments around the United States are issuing the antidote to heroin overdoses to their officers and other first responders, would certainly coincide with such a lack of border security. This is why I have come to refer to the DHS as the <i>Department of Homeland Surrender.</i></p>
<p>During my discussion with JD on his program, I also referenced an exchange between Congressman Lou Barletta and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about whether or not criminals who are known to be criminals in the United States would come forward to participate in an amnesty program. Johnson conceded that they would not. This was covered in a Breitbart News report that was published on September 17, 2014: <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/17/DHS-Sec-Concedes-Background-Checks-for-Amnesty-Would-Not-Catch-Criminals">&#8220;DHS Chief Concedes Background Checks for Amnesty Would Not Catch Criminals”</a></p>
<p>During my interview with JD on his program I also raised the issue of “sanctuary cities” and the impact such policies have on national security. I referenced the fact that New York City’s mayor Bill de Blasio had decided, with utter impunity, to provide illegal aliens with identity documents that, as an added “bonus,” would enable illegal aliens to whom those cards are issued to gain entrance into museums and other cultural landmarks in New York City.</p>
<p>While some news programs debated this outrageous program, the focus, for the most part, was the economic cost of providing illegal aliens with the municipal IDs that can be used as a free pass to so many major attractions that would cost thousands of dollars per alien. No one mentioned the cost to national security and public safety under de Blasio&#8217;s ill-conceived program by providing illegal aliens with identity documents that could easily enable criminals and terrorists to acquire official identity documents in false names. This violates the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and also violates the REAL ID Act that was enacted as a result of the 9/11 Commission report.</p>
<p>The article that chronicled my interview on NewsMax-TV included this excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When we hear sanctuary city, we should think about the word haven, as when the president the night before the 13th anniversary of 9/11 said, &#8216;we need to deprive the terrorists&#8217; safe haven,&#8217;&#8221; Cutler explained.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sanctuary cities is doing precisely that — providing safe haven, right here in cities across the United States, aided and abetted by this administration that refuses to enforce the laws, and has provided hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens with identity documents,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;What could possibly go wrong?&#8221; Cutler asked.</p></blockquote>
<p>What, indeed, could possibly go wrong?</p>
<p>On September 17, 2014, Homeland Security News Wire published a report with the title: <a href="http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140917-nyc-mayor-de-blasio-facing-criticism-for-curbing-counterterrorism-programs">&#8220;NYC mayor de Blasio facing criticism for curbing counterterrorism programs.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>This important news report quoted none other than John Lehman, former Secretary of the Navy and a former member of the 9/11 Commission. Here is a significant excerpt from this report:</p>
<blockquote><p>New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is facing backlash over his decision to curb several counterterrorism programs introduced by former mayor Michael Bloomberg. “He has reassigned people and vehicles and special equipment to non-counterterrorist activities,” said John Lehman, a former member of the <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/">9/11 Commission</a>, who recommended that New York City adopt stronger surveillance initiatives after the 9/11 attacks.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://nyc.gov/nypd">New York Police Department</a>’s stop-and-frisk program, which faced criticism for disproportionately targeting minority youths, has been restricted under de Blasio. Lehman believes the program was instrumental in discouraging would-be terrorists from carrying a bomb or wearing a suicide vest in high-risk areas of New York City. Critics say the policy change may discourage police officers from stopping a person who might appear suspicious. “If you see someone with a package or a bulky vest, you are taking a great risk if you stop and frisk them. If the person is a person of color and not carrying a bomb or evidence of potential terrorist risks, as a cop you’re in big trouble,” Lehman said.</p>
<p>The Hill reports that de Blasio has also been criticized for approving a program to issue municipal IDs of standards lower than those mandated by the federal government’s <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/real-id-public-faqs">Real ID</a> program. The municipal IDs are intended to serve undocumented immigrants and residents who may not be eligible for regular state IDs under the Real ID program. “They’re completely opposed to Real ID and the other issues that were adopted by Congress as a result of our recommendations,” Lehman said.</p>
<p>The Real ID Act of 2005 requires verified proof of identification, like birth certificates or social security numbers, before state identification cards are issued to residents. “You need a reliable way of identifying people. You don’t simply issue ID cards willy nilly to anybody who wants them and shows up and has his picture taken and tells you what his name is,” Lehman said.</p></blockquote>
<p>I previously wrote about de Blasio’s preposterous and dangerous program in an article I wrote for CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) that was posted on February 25, 2014: <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/nyc-mayor-determined-give-illegal-aliens-id-cards">&#8220;NYC Mayor Determined to Give Illegal Aliens ID Cards.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>These issues all raise the question: Why on earth would the government of the United States embark on a program of providing documents to aliens who evade our borders and the lawful inspections process that are supposed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence would be problematic for the United States &#8212; including international terrorists and transnational criminals?</p>
<p>It is unfathomable that the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission are never raised by the members of Congress or other politicians who support “comprehensive Immigration reform.” This includes Texas Governor Perry who has been certainly sounding the alarm that terrorists are entering the United States by running our borders but then has repeatedly stated that the border must be secured before we can deal with the millions of illegal aliens who are present in the United States.</p>
<p>The issue is that the terrorists who have managed to evade the Border Patrol are already among those unknown millions of illegal aliens present in the United States. There is no possible way for USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) the division of the DHS that would be responsible for processing those millions of illegal aliens, to actually conduct in-person interviews with these foreign nationals who snuck into the United States. There are no resources to conduct any sort of field investigations of these aliens either. The applications would simply be processed by mail without the ability to corroborate any of the information contained in those applications.</p>
<p>On September 10, 2014 the New York Times published President Obama&#8217;s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/world/middleeast/obamas-remarks-on-the-fight-against-isis.html">&#8220;Remarks on the Fight Against ISIS,&#8221;</a> which he delivered that same evening, just hours before the 13<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the worst terror attacks ever carried out on American soil. It is important to consider this excerpt from that speech:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>So tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. Our objective is clear: We will degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy.</i></p>
<p><i>First, we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. Working with the Iraqi government, we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so that we’re hitting ISIL targets as Iraqi forces go on offense. Moreover, I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">That last sentence bears repeating:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is worth noting that Obama&#8217;s predecessor, President George W. Bush, also noted that the terrorists who carried out the attacks of 9/11 would be deprived “safe haven.”</p>
<p>CNN published a copy of the <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/20/gen.bush.transcript/">transcript of President George W. Bush’s speech</a> he delivered on September 20, 2001; just nine days after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here are a few excerpted paragraphs from his speech that are well worth remembering:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country. Americans have known wars, but for the past 136 years they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941. Americans have known the casualties of war, but not at the center of a great city on a peaceful morning.</i></p>
<p><i>Americans have known surprise attacks, but never before on thousands of civilians. All of this was brought upon us in a single day, and night fell on a different world, a world where freedom itself is under attack.</i></p>
<p><i>Americans have many questions tonight. Americans are asking, &#8220;Who attacked our country?&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda. They are some of the murderers indicted for bombing American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and responsible for bombing the USS Cole.</i></p>
<p><i>Al Qaeda is to terror what the Mafia is to crime. But its goal is not making money, its goal is remaking the world and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">President Bush went on to say:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.</i></p>
<p><i>From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime. Our nation has been put on notice, we&#8217;re not immune from attack. We will take defensive measures against terrorism to protect Americans. Today, dozens of federal departments and agencies, as well as state and local governments, have responsibilities affecting homeland security.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let&#8217;s go back and consider the sentence that should be the focus of everyone&#8217;s attention today:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">There are a couple of “take-aways” to consider in those paragraphs. First of all President Bush, not unlike President Obama, made it clear that terrorists must be deprived “safe havens.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Second, President Bush also noted that the U.S. Embassies at Tanzania and Kenya had been attacked by the terrorists who also bombed the USS Cole.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is worth considering the attack that was carried out last year at the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">A documentary film was recently released about this horrific, devastating attack that is currently airing regularly on HBO. On September 14, 2014 the New York Times reviewed the film and gave that review the title, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/arts/television/terror-at-the-mall-on-hbo-documents-an-attack-in-kenya.html?_r=0">&#8220;In This Horror Film, Blood Is All Too Real / ‘Terror at the Mall’ on HBO Documents an Attack in Kenya.&#8221;</a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is how the extensive review of this documentary begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>One year ago, gunmen from the Shabab militant group in Somalia laid </i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/30/world/africa/mall-aftermath-photos.html">&#8220;<i>siege to the Westgate shopping mall</i></a><i> in Nairobi, Kenya. Armed with AK-47s and grenades, they stalked their victims from a gourmet burger restaurant at the entrance to the vegetable aisle of a grocery store at the back.</i></p>
<p><i>The British filmmaker Dan Reed assembled thousands of hours of footage gleaned from more than 100 security cameras inside the mall, video from television crews and modest cellphones, as well as still photographs. Then he and his team tracked down more than 200 people and interviewed 82 of them on camera, many survivors or their rescuers.</i></p>
<p><i>The result is a harrowing hourlong documentary, “</i><a href="http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/terror-at-the-mall#/">Terror at the Mall</a><i>,” airing on HBO on Monday night. Tracer bullets slash across blurry closed-circuit footage, blood stains tile floors where children skipped moments before, and family members recount in horrific detail the deaths of loved ones.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">This documentary should be required viewing by every member of the Obama administration who has even the most tangential involvement with national security issues. It should be required viewing for every member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate and their respective staffers. Finally, every mayor, governor, state and local legislator and every chief of police must also be made to watch this film.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The mayors and governors who have declared their towns, cities and states sanctuary cities should be required to watch this documentary as many times as it takes to get them to reverse their deadly policies.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What transpired in Kenya could easily, God forbid, take place in any of the malls to be found in towns and cities across our nation. Several weeks ago I wrote an article about the foolish idea that all that DHS needs to do to protect our nation from terrorists and transnational criminals is to simply secure the border that is supposed to separate the United States from Mexico. The title of my article was: <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-cutler/border-security-and-the-immigration-colander/">&#8220;Border Security and the Immigration Colander.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The point I addressed in that article was that it is insane to think that simply focusing on one of many failures of the immigration system &#8212; plugging just one of many holes in the system &#8212; would make our country safe. A similar article could be written about the myriad vulnerabilities that terrorists could easily exploit to carry out an attack inside the United States.</p>
<p>Certainly it is important to make certain that we keep terrorists off of airliners. However, this is only one of many, many vulnerabilities and most of the other such vulnerabilities are being utterly ignored.</p>
<p>For several years after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 politicians from both political parties repeated what became the virtual mantra that justified our military actions overseas: “We are fighting them (the terrorists) over there so that we will not have to fight them over here.”</p>
<p>It should be obvious that such statements are baseless and in point of fact, absurd. The terror attacks of 9/11 were carried out <i>over here &#8211;</i> at the World Trade Center in New York City, at that field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon.</p>
<p>Subsequent terror attacks were also attempted within America&#8217;s borders.</p>
<p>For example, on May 1, 2010 Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized United States citizen who was born in Pakistan attempted to carry out a terror attack by setting off a bomb in an SUV that he left parked in New York City&#8217;s Times Square, often referred to as the “Crossroads of the World.”</p>
<p>On April 15, 2013 the Boston Marathon was attacked by the Tsarnaev Brothers who, along with their family members, had been, years earlier, granted political asylum, claiming a “credible fear” that they could not safely return to their native Russia. No sooner were they granted asylum in the United States than they hopped on airliners and returned to Russia. It would certainly appear that they lied on their applications for asylum. Yet their deception went un-noticed and unpunished.</p>
<p>On May 2, 2013, I was interviewed by Megyn Kelly of Fox News about that terror bombing of the Boston Marathon. The video of the interview was posted on the Fox News website under the title, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/05/02/immigration-expert-system-much-worse-shape-people-think">Immigration Expert: The System Failed in Boston and Keeps on Failing</a>.</span><span style="color: #386eff;">”</span></p>
<p>Thanks to failures in the system, it is not known how many ticking time bombs like Shahzad and the Tsarnaev Brothers are in our midst.</p>
<p>On September 20, 2013 CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) posted my article about the failures of the vetting process for alien applicants who apply for immigration benefits: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><a href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/comprehensive-immigration-reform-background-checks-require-reality-check#sthash.RhBhBsqP.dpuf">Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Background Checks Require a Reality Check</a>”</p>
<p>On July 30, 2012 CAPS (Californians for Population Stabilization) posted my commentary: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><a href="http://www.caps-blog.org/articles/2012/07/30/fraud-the-immigration-vulnerability-that-undermines-the-immigration-system-and-national-security/">Fraud: The Immigration Vulnerability That Undermines the Immigration System and National Security</a>”</p>
<p>On November 20, 2013 ABC News reported: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“Exclusive: US May Have Let ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees</a>”</p>
<p>This is not a new problem, on July 13, 2011 the Washington Times published a truly disturbing article: “<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/13/visas-reviewed-to-find-those-who-overstayed/#.TiMniZ96LSg.email">Visas reviewed to find those who overstayed / Aim is to find any would-be terrorists</a>”</p>
<p style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #000000;">On July 20, 2013 the Washington Times published another disturbing report: <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/30/homeland-security-loses-track-of-1-million-foreign/print/">&#8220;Homeland Security loses track of 1 million foreigners; report could hurt immigration deal.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>On Friday, May 24, 2013 “The Blaze” and &#8220;My San Antonio,&#8221; reported on the arrest of Wissam Allouche by the FBI and members of the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) in San Antonio, Texas, for lying on his application for naturalization to acquire United States citizenship.</p>
<p>The article published by “My San Antonio” was entitled: <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Alleged-member-of-Hezbollah-arrested-here-4547483.php">“Alleged member of Hezbollah arrested here.”</a></p>
<p>The article in “The Blaze” was entitled: <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/24/infiltration-alleged-member-of-hezbollah-arrested-in-texas-after-he-tried-to-get-sensitive-defense-dept-position/">“Infiltration? The Alarming Details Surrounding Alleged Hezbollah Member’s Arrest in Texas”</a></p>
<p>While Allouche’s application for naturalization was approved and he was arrested and <a href="http://embed.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=157940520">indicted</a> for committing fraud in filing that application years earlier, what no one has pointed out is that in addition to allegedly successfully gaming the naturalization process, he had been a lawful immigrant for years. He had a Green Card for at least three years before he applied for United States citizenship. It is vital to understand that the lack of integrity to the process by which aliens are granted lawful status in the United States — including resident alien status and United States citizenship — poses an immediate and direct threat to national security.</p>
<p>Just a few weeks ago, on September 2, 2014 ABC News reported, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/visa-program-struggles-track-missing-foreign-students/story?id=25208740">“Lost in America: Visa Program Struggles to Track Missing Foreign Students.</a>” The Report read in part:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>ABC News found that immigration officials have struggled to keep track of the rapidly increasing numbers of foreign students coming to the U.S. &#8212; now in excess of one million each year. The immigration agency’s own figures show that 58,000 students overstayed their visas in the past year. Of those, 6,000 were referred to agents for follow-up because they were determined to be of heightened concern.</i></p>
<p>“<i>They just disappear,” said Sen. </i><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/tom-coburn.htm"><i>Tom Coburn</i></a><i>, R-Okla. “They get the visas and they disappear.”</i></p>
<p><i>Coburn said since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, 26 student visa holders have been arrested in the U.S. on terror-related charges.</i></p>
<p><i>Tightening up the student visa program was one of the major recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission, after it was determined that the hijacker who flew Flight 77 into </i><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/the-pentagon.htm"><i>the Pentagon</i></a><i>, Hani Hanjour, had entered the U.S. on a student visa but never showed up for school.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>This news report was also the focus of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8l8Dttm-xE&amp;index=3&amp;list=PLanUqPajptu6VehbZ8_WDzZXUBCOOrhQC">my interview</a> by JD Hayworth on the <a href="http://newsmaxtv.com/">NewsMax-TV</a> program, “America’s Forum” on September 3, 2014.</p>
<p>Back on May 7, 2014 ICE issued a news release about the enrollment of foreign students in the United States: <a href="http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1405/140507washingtondc.htm">&#8220;SEVP report provides snapshot of international students studying in US. International student enrollment up 2 percent at US schools, 75 percent of students from Asia&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Here is the key paragraph from that press release:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>As of April 1, almost 1.02 million international students were enrolled in nearly 9,000 U.S. schools using an F (academic) or M (vocational) visa. This marks a two percent increase from January. Seventy-five percent of all international students were from Asia, with 29 percent from China. Saudi Arabia and India had the greatest percentage increase of students studying in the United States at 10 and eight percent, respectively, when compared to January statistics. The top 10 countries of citizenship for international students included: China, India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Mexico and Brazil.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It was known that visa fraud and immigration benefit fraud were among the vulnerabilities that made the 9/11 attacks possible. In fact, on May 20, 1997, more than four years before the attacks of 9/11, the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims conducted a hearing that was predicated on the two attacks of 1993 (at the CIA in January and the first World Trade bombing one month later) on the topic: “<a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju44195.000/hju44195_0f.htm">Visa Fraud and Immigration Benefits Application Fraud.</a>”</p>
<p>I participated as a witness at that hearing. It was my first appearance before a congressional hearing but would be hardly my last.</p>
<p>On September 11, 2001 as the ashes from the conflagration at what came to be known as “Ground Zero” fluttered down on my neighborhood and, indeed, my home, I was enraged knowing that if the Clinton Administration had acted to close the gaps in the immigration system that were discovered in the wake of the two 1993 attacks, in my judgement, the terror attacks of 9/11 could have been prevented. (I am not being political in that statement; for what it is worth, I am a lifelong registered Democrat. Immigration is not about “Left” or “Right” but about right or wrong.)</p>
<p>Perhaps the highest profile hearing for which I have been called to testify was conducted on March 19, 2002 by the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, on the topic: <a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju78298.000/hju78298_0f.htm">“INS’s March 2002 Notification of Approval of Change of Status for Pilot Training for Terrorist Hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi.”</a></p>
<p>This hearing was covered by C-SPAN and the <a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/165862">C-SPAN video</a> every member of Congress should be required to watch it. It is unfathomable how twelve years after that hearing was conducted into one of the most outrageous screw-ups that all of the promises to address the failures of the system continue to plague the very same system as clearly evidenced by the “missing” students noted above.</p>
<p>The 9/11 Commission warned about the way that visa fraud and immigration fraud undermines national security and has become the method of choice for terrorists to enter the United States and embed themselves in the United States.</p>
<p>Here is an important paragraph from the <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf">9/11 Commission Report</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Inspectors at the ports of entry were not asked to focus on terrorists. Inspectors told us they were not even aware that when they checked the names of incoming passengers against the automated watchlist, they were checking in part for terrorists. In general, border inspectors also did not have the information they needed to make fact-based determinations of admissibility.The INS initiated but failed to bring to completion two efforts that would have provided inspectors with information relevant to counterterrorism—a proposed system to track foreign student visa compliance and a program to establish a way of tracking travelers’ entry to and exit from the United States.</i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</a></span><span style="color: #386eff;"> </span>detailed numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States, but to also embed themselves in the United States. Page 47 of this report noted:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It is significant to note that the Seasonal Agricultural Program, also known as the Special Agricultural Program (SAW), was a major component of the 1986 Amnesty and that New York&#8217;s then Congressman Chuck Schumer, the leading member of the “Gang of Eight,&#8221; was one of that program&#8217;s major architects even though there were absolutely no farms in his congressional district when he concocted it.</p>
<p>This paragraph is found on page 98 of the report, under the title “Immigration Benefits:”</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It is absolutely imperative that the mission of denying “safe haven” to terrorists anywhere in the world, as called for by Presidents Bush and Obama, be successfully carried out. However, even before our government casts its gaze overseas to countries around the world, the focus must be on the ways that our own “leaders” on the federal, state and even local level are providing safe haven for terrorists and others who pose a serious threat to national security and public safety right here, inside our own country.</p>
<p>It has been often said that “charity begins at home.” Our national security must also begin at home.</p>
<p>When a doctor makes a mistake that injures, cripples or kills his patient he (she) may well face a lawsuit, loss of his license to practice medicine and may even be prosecuted for committing a crime stemming from his malpractice. Police officers who use excessive force may also face similar sanctions, as may other professionals.</p>
<p>As a result of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 the only people who lost their jobs were the same people who lost their lives.</p>
<p>The time has long since come for our politicians to be made no less accountable than those in other professions. The impact they have on America and Americans is far greater than that of any doctor or police officer.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Department+Homeland+Security+Headquarters+TpSfGFx0T7-l.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239255" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Department+Homeland+Security+Headquarters+TpSfGFx0T7-l-450x293.jpg" alt="Department+Homeland+Security+Headquarters+TpSfGFx0T7-l" width="306" height="199" /></a>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in the wake of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.  Federal agencies understood to play an integral role in protecting the American homeland from terrorist attacks were folded into this bureaucratic leviathan and included, among other federal agencies, the Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service and components of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service).</p>
<p>The title of the agency, &#8220;Department of Homeland Security,&#8221; certainly created the appearance that the issue of national security was at the heart of the massive reorganization of federal agencies, but it became readily apparent that this was not the case.  In fact, the myriad failures of this agency have caused me to come to refer to the DHS as being the “Department of Homeland <i>Surrender.</i>”</p>
<p>As noted on the <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/dhs-budget"><span style="color: #011480;">official DHS website</span></a>, the budget for the DHS for Fiscal Year 2015 has been set at more than $60 billion.  ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been provided with more than 5.4 billion dollars, CBP (Customs and Border Protection) has been budgeted for nearly 12.8 billion dollars while USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) has been budgeted to receive more than 3 billion dollars and the TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) will receive more than 7.3 billion dollars.</p>
<p><span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.dhs.gov/our-mission">The Official DHS Website</a></span> lists it mission as follows:</p>
<p><b>The Core Missions</b></p>
<p>There are five homeland security missions:</p>
<p style="color: #011480;">1. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/prevent-terrorism-and-enhance-security">Prevent terrorism and enhancing security</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p style="color: #011480;">2. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/secure-and-manage-borders">Secure and manage our borders</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p style="color: #011480;">3. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/administer-immigration-laws">Enforce and administer our immigration laws</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p style="color: #011480;">4. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/safeguard-and-secure-cyberspace">Safeguard and secure cyberspace</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p style="color: #011480;">5. <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/building-resilient-nation">Ensure resilience to disasters</a><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></p>
<p>While all sorts of arguments are being made about how secure or insecure our borders truly are, the irrefutable metric about border security has nothing to do with the arrest statistics offered by the administration (which are, at best, highly suspect), but can be found in the fact that our nation finds itself awash with heroin and cocaine.  In point of fact, police departments and other first responder agencies across the United States are providing their members with the antidote to heroin overdoses.  This is an unprecedented measure.</p>
<p>Neither heroin nor cocaine are produced in the United States.  Therefore, every single gram of these substances that are present in the United States provides graphic and incontrovertible evidence of a failure of border security.</p>
<p>How secure can our nation be when our borders are not secure and unknown millions of foreign nationals freely roam the towns and cities of our nation while their very presence in the United States represents a violation of the essential immigration laws that are America&#8217;s first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals?</p>
<p>If a company made promises such as those articulated in the DHS mission statement, and did as an abysmal job as the DHS does, it would face all sorts of lawsuits and sanctions &#8212; ultimately putting it out of business.  These failures of the DHS are hardly “victimless.”  Every year thousands of people in the United States die because of crimes committed by criminal aliens.  Illegal drugs play a role in most violent crimes committed in the United States &#8212; creating still more carnage.</p>
<p>Terror attacks have killed and injured thousands of innocent victims and we have never been more vulnerable to this threat than we are today.</p>
<p>No one has been made accountable for these failures of the immigration system.  The only people who have lost their jobs were those who were slaughtered because of those attacks.</p>
<p>There is an expression that mocks those who fail to act until a tragedy strikes &#8212; doing too little, too late.  The expression is, “Closing the barn doors after the horses are stolen.”  This administration, aided an abetted by politicians from both sides of the aisle and those local and state politicians who gloat about creating “Sanctuaries” for illegal aliens are in fact, guilty of taking the barn doors off the hinges after the horses were stolen.</p>
<p>Of course, if, God forbid, there is another terror attack carried out on American soil, these supposed leaders may claim the “insanity defense.”  It has been said that insanity is “Doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different outcome.”</p>
<p>On March 9, 2005 I testified before the Subcommittee on Management, Integration and Oversight of the Committee on Homeland Security on the topic: <i><a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-109hhrg20756/html/CHRG-109hhrg20756.htm">CBP and ICE: Does the Current Organizational Structure Best Serve U.S. Homeland Security Interests? </a></i></p>
<p>In my <a href="http://cis.org/node/544"><span style="color: #011480;">prepared testimony</span></a> I made it clear that in my judgement, the creation of the DHS caused many more problems than it solved.</p>
<p>This is an excerpt from my prepared testimony:</p>
<blockquote><p>The fact that the issue of re-organizing the agencies which bear the responsibility of securing our nation&#8217;s borders is the focus of this hearing encourages me that this subcommittee is intent on making the protection of our borders and the enforcement of the immigration laws the priorities as well they should be. But I would implore you and your colleagues who represent us in both houses of congress to act swiftly and resolutely to secure our nation&#8217;s borders which at present are anything but secure. The clock is ticking and time is on the side of our nation&#8217;s enemies. To quote the first two sentences of the preface of a report entitled, &#8220;9/11 and Terrorist Travel, A Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States,&#8221;</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and </i><i>carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the </i><i>country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance </i><i>border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border </i><i>security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The failure of our nation to impose even a modicum of control over who is able to enter our nation, even now, is a clear indication of the inability of the United States to protect its citizens from the potential of another terrorist attack. And it is not only terrorists who threaten our well-being. It has been estimated that 30% of the federal inmate population is comprised of aliens.</p></blockquote>
<p>I concluded my testimony at that hearing by stating:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is my opinion, and the opinion of many of my former colleagues at the former INS, that this management structure is unwieldy and ineffective. The enforcement of the immigration laws is critical and shares little with the other agencies which have been combined with the former INS. The mission of each of these agencies is critical, but also unique. The mission of the former U.S. Customs Service bears little in common with the work and priorities and orientation of the former INS. In fact, prior to the merger, Customs was a division of the Treasury Department and the INS was a division of the Department of Justice. Its primary responsibility was to prevent contraband from entering the United States and to collect tariffs and duties. Customs is responsible for the movement of goods and currency across our nation&#8217;s borders.</p>
<p>The INS was concerned with the movement of people across our nation&#8217;s borders and has been involved with issues that more closely paralleled what the employees of State Department, the Labor Department, and the FBI are involved with. To re-enforce this point, I would point out that while it was relatively rare for INS agents to work with their Customs counterparts it was relatively common for us to work with agents of the other agencies I have just mentioned. The primary similarity between Customs and the INS was the border. Once you remove the border from the equation the differences become obvious and profound.</p>
<p>Since the merger of INS into ICE the new special agents who are now being trained are no longer even receiving Spanish language training. It is estimated that some 80% of the illegal alien population is Spanish speaking. This language training was an integral part of the curriculum for all new enforcement officers at the old INS. You cannot investigate people you cannot communicate with. It is worth noting that most of the Special Agents-in-Charge of the ICE offices came from the U.S. Customs Service further eroding the immigration mission. I have come to think of the current situation as the &#8220;Customization of immigration law enforcement.&#8221; I have been told that few, if any employers of illegal aliens were fined under the auspices of the employer sanctions program in the United States last year. Additionally, the investigation of immigration benefit fraud has been relegated, from what I have been told, to being pursued by very few field agents and computer systems.</p>
<p>We are currently engaged in a war on terror where control of our nation&#8217;s borders is critical to the outcome of this battle where the stakes are so high. In order for the borders to be secured we need to have a coordinated enforcement program that creates a seamless effort from the borders to the interior. This can best be done, in my estimation, by putting the CBP and ICE under one roof. It is also essential that separate chains of command be established for the immigration enforcement program with specific training and funding and accountability. This is the era of the specialist. One size does not fit all. It is critical that our nation gains control of its borders and the entire immigration bureaucracy if we are to protect our nation from illegal immigration. Illegal immigration has a profound impact on more other aspects of this nation than does any other issue. It impacts on everything from education, the environment, health-care and the economy to criminal justice and national security. It is vital, in my view, that this mission be effectively dealt with. The current structure does not provide the framework or leadership to enable this to happen. Morale among the former INS personnel is at an all-time low.  Clearly this situation needs to be remedied. A reorganization such as I outlined would represent a major step in the right direction.</p></blockquote>
<p>On March 10, 2005 I testified before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims on the topic: <a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju99785.000/hju99785_0f.htm"><i>Interior Immigration Enforcement Resources.</i></a></p>
<p>Here is how my prepared testimony began:</p>
<blockquote><p>A country without secure borders can no more stand than can a house without walls. The task of securing America&#8217;s borders falls to the dedicated men and women of CBP and ICE. These law enforcement officers are often put in harm&#8217;s way as they try to prevent aliens from gaining unauthorized entry into our country. They are not succeeding in this vital mission as evidenced by the millions of illegal aliens who currently live within our nation&#8217;s borders. This is not because of failings for which the employees of ICE or CBP bear the responsibility, but rather because our government has consistently failed to provide them with the resources they need to make certain that this basic job gets done.</p>
<p>The 9/11 Commission ultimately came to recognize the critical nature of immigration law enforcement where the &#8221;War on Terror&#8221; is concerned. In fact, page 49 of the report entitled, <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf"><span style="color: #386eff;"><b><i>&#8216;</i></b><i>&#8217;9/11 and Terrorist Travel, A Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States&#8221;</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><b><i> </i></b></span><span style="color: #386eff;"><b><i> </i></b></span>contains a sentence that reads, &#8221;Thus abuse of the immigration system and a lack of interior immigration enforcement were unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In point of fact, there are precious few members of Congress who are even willing to suggest that America&#8217;s borders be made truly secure or that our immigration laws be effectively enforced even though the 9/11 Commission and its staff of federal agents and attorneys identified failures of border security and the overall lack of integrity to the immigration system as playing a key role in enabling the terrorists to enter the United States and embed themselves in the United States as they went about their deadly preparations.</p>
<p>To this very day, it is all but impossible to find members of Congress willing to talk about the nexus between immigration and terrorism or other threat to national security or public safety.</p>
<p>On Sunday, August 10, 2014 South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham went on Fox News to discuss his concerns about members of ISIS attacking the United States.  The Huffington Post ran a report about Graham&#8217;s televised interview.  The title of the article summed up Graham&#8217;s statements, succinctly: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/10/lindsey-graham-syria_n_5665831.html">Lindsey Graham: If Obama Doesn&#8217;t Go On Offense, Terrorists Are &#8216;Coming Here.&#8217;</a></p>
<p style="color: #011480;"><span style="color: #000000;">Fox News also reported on Graham&#8217;s interview:  <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/10/graham-islamic-state-will-attack-on-us-soil-obama-must-stop-terror-groups-rise/">&#8220;Graham: Islamic State will attack on US soil, Obama must stop terror group’s rise.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from the Fox News article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>However, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a fellow Democrat and the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is taking a more hawkish stance, similar to Graham’s.</i></p>
<p><i>“It takes an army to defeat an army, and I believe that we either confront [Islamic State] now or we will be forced to deal with an even stronger enemy in the future,” she said Friday after the airstrikes were announced. “Inaction is no longer an option.”</i></p>
<p><i>She and others have said for months that Islamic State is recruiting and training fighters from Europe and the United States who could come home and launch a terror attack.</i></p>
<p><i>Graham also argued that Islamic State’s nearly unchecked rise is the result of Obama failing last year to take action against the group in Syria, even after the FBI and other U.S. intelligence officials warned the White House and Congress of its growing, global threat.</i></p>
<p><i>“Your game plan cannot protect the United States,” Graham said Sunday, addressing Obama.</i></p>
<p><i>Such rhetoric tracks closely to that used in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, lawmakers from both parties voted to give President George W. Bush the authority to take military action against Iraq in the hopes of combating terrorism.</i></p>
<p><i>At the time, many said the United States faced a choice of fighting terrorism on American soil or on foreign soil.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>What is being ignored by the politicians and most news organizations is that the “War on Terror” is not an “either/or” situation.  Terrorists can certainly launch attacks inside the United States whether or not we hammer them with our military forces in the Middle East.</p>
<p>While the emergence of ISIS has justifiably ratcheted up concerns about the Damoclean threat of global terrorism, these concerns have been raised for years and, incredibly, many of the very same politicians have turned the issue of border security into a bargaining chip for a program that would ultimately provide unknown millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and official identity documents even though they know full well that there would be no way to interview those aliens in person &#8212; let alone conduct actual field investigations to determine the truthfulness of the claims made in their applications.</p>
<p style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #000000;">On December 1, 2013 the Huffington Post ran a worrying report:  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/01/dianne-feinstein-america-less-safe_n_4367906.html">&#8220;America Is &#8216;Less Safe&#8217; Than 2 Years Ago, Intelligence Committee Chairs Say.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>The report focused on statements made by Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate&#8217;s Intelligence Committee, when she was interviewed for CNN&#8217;s program, “State of the Union.”</p>
<p>Here is how the report began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Interviewed on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she believed that there are now more terrorists with the technological means to carry out a bombing in the U.S.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Here is an additional important excerpt from the Huffington Post article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I think terror is up worldwide,&#8221; said Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. &#8220;There are new bombs, very big bombs, trucks being reinforced for those bombs. There are bombs that go through magnetometers. The bomb-maker is still alive. There are more groups than ever. And there is huge malevolence out there.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>Feinstein added that there was &#8220;a real displaced aggression in this very fundamentalist jihadist Islamic community, and that is that the West is responsible for everything that goes wrong and that the only thing that&#8217;s going to solve this is Islamic Sharia law.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On the same day, December 1, 2013 Newsmax posted the report that provided an even more dire warning: <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/feinstein-rogers-terror-threat/2013/12/01/id/539316?ns_mail_uid=4092516&amp;ns_mail_job=1548232_12012013&amp;promo_code=15C7C-1">&#8220;Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Rogers: Terror Threat Greater Than Before Sept 11&#8243;</a></p>
<p>This report began with this unambiguous assessment:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The U.S. is in greater danger of a terrorist attack than it was prior to September 11 and has less ability to prevent such aggression by Islamist radicals, key congressional intelligence leaders said Sunday.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>This report ended with the following statement:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Feinstein is pushing legislation to protect NSA practices but require more congressional reporting.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The disconnect is nothing short of astonishing.  Feinstein is willing to accept a loss of privacy in the name of national security while she blithely ignores anything that relates to the 9/11 Commission, its findings or its recommendations.  Having mentioned the 9/11 Commission, the first paragraph of the preface of the &#8220;<span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</a>&#8220;</span><span style="color: #011b44;"><b><i> </i></b></span>begins with the following paragraph:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United </i><i>States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were </i><i>efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border </i><i>security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers </i><i>demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the </i><i>United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security </i><i>policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made </i><i>one.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist travel went on to detail numerous examples of instances where terrorists not only made use of visa and immigration benefit fraud to enter the United States but to also embed themselves in the United States. Page 47 of this report noted:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Once terrorists had entered the United States, their next challenge was to find a way to remain here. Their primary method was immigration fraud. For example, Yousef and Ajaj concocted bogus political asylum stories when they arrived in the United States. Mahmoud Abouhalima, involved in both the World Trade Center and landmarks plots, received temporary residence under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, after falsely claiming that he picked beans in Florida.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>This paragraph is found on page 98 under the title “Immigration Benefits:”</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.</i>”</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #000000;">On July 20, 2013 the Washington Times published a truly disturbing report:  <i><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/30/homeland-security-loses-track-of-1-million-foreign/print/">&#8220;Homeland Security loses track of 1 million foreigners; report could hurt immigration deal.&#8221;</a></i></span></p>
<p>Here is how this important report begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The Homeland Security Department has lost track of more than 1 million people who it knows arrived in the U.S. but who it cannot prove left the country, according to an audit Tuesday that also found the department probably won&#8217;t meet its own goals for deploying an entry-exit system. </i><i>The findings were revealed as Congress debates an immigration bill, and the Government Accountability Office&#8217;s report could throw up another hurdle because lawmakers in the House and Senate have said that any final deal must include a workable system to track entries and exits and cut down on so-called visa overstays.</i></p>
<p><i>The government does track arrivals, but is years overdue in setting up a system to track departures — a goal set in a 1996 immigration law and reaffirmed in 2004, but which has eluded Republican and Democratic administrations.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It is foolish &#8212; indeed extremely perilous &#8212; to think that terrorists would not want to strike at the heart of America today to demoralize our nation.</p>
<p>We have numerous examples of terror attacks that had been carried out, or were attempted to be carried out in the United States.</p>
<p>But then you need to remember that Graham was one of the “Gang of Eight” that concocted Comprehensive Immigration Reform.  On Feb. 18, 2013 Accuracy In Media (AIM) published my paper:  <span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-gang-of-eight-and-immigration-reform-bordering-on-a-national-security-nightmare/">The “Gang of Eight” and Immigration Reform: “Bordering on a National Security Nightmare.”</a></span></p>
<p>From the day that the DHS was created concerns about the ability of this huge agency to truly enhance national security was questioned by the employees of the various component agencies.  Many of my former colleagues at the INS who suddenly found themselves to be part of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) became concerned that by splitting up the immigration mission among three agencies and positioning many managers from what became known as “legacy customs” in charge of the enforcement of the immigration laws would compromise the ability of this cobbled-together entity of ICE to properly enforce the immigration laws.</p>
<p>Additionally, while the former INS had its share of problems, putting the Border Patrol and inspectors assigned to ports of entry into the newly created agency known as CBP (Customs and Border Protection) would only exacerbate the challenges to mounting a coordinated effort to secure our nation&#8217;s borders and effectively enforcing our immigration laws.  There were additional concerns that moving the adjudications officers who were charged with adjudicating applications for immigration benefits, such as conferring refugee status and resident alien status as well as United States citizenship upon lawful immigrants, would add to the lack of coordination that is vital to making certain that there is meaningful integrity to the immigration mission</p>
<p>It is unlikely that DHS was created to truly cure the ills of the former INS, but if it was, then you could compare the creation of this Frankenstein agency with the statement, “The surgery was a success but the patient died.”</p>
<p>I have testified before more than a dozen congressional hearings and on several occasions I was called upon to provide insight about my concerns about how the creation of the DHS migh impact effective enforcement and administration of our immigration laws.</p>
<p>In the days, weeks and months after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 a veritable parade of political “leaders” seeking that all-important photo-op and print in the newspapers, stood before the forest of microphones and television cameras and thumped their chests and the podiums demanding to know, “Why no one had connected the dots?”</p>
<p>Of course, the vulnerabilities created by failures of the immigration system were well known to many politicians for years prior to the attacks of 9/11.</p>
<p>On May 20, 1997, more than four years before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I participated in my first Congressional hearing. That hearing was conducted by the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and was entitled: <i>&#8220;</i><a href="http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju44195.000/hju44195_0f.htm"><i>Visa Fraud and Immigration Benefits Application Fraud.&#8221;</i></a></p>
<p>This important hearing was predicated on two terrorist attacks that were carried out more than four years earlier, in 1993 by aliens from the Middle East who, as was determined, gamed the visa process and/or the immigration benefits program.</p>
<p>In January 1993 a Pakistani national by the name of Mir Kansi stood outside CIA Headquarters with an AK-47 and opened fire on the vehicles of CIA officials reporting for work on that cold January morning in Virginia. When the smoke dissipated, two CIA officer lay dead and three others were seriously wounded. Kansi fled the United States and was ultimately brought back to stand trial.  He was found guilty and executed for his crimes. He had also been granted political asylum and had been subsequently found to have lied on his application, thereby committing a felony: fraud. Had the fraud been detected and had he been deported from the United States, those who were killed and wounded would not have been harmed.</p>
<p>Just one month later, on February 26, 1993 a bomb-laden truck was parked in the garage under the World Trade Center complex and detonated. The blast nearly brought one of the 110 story towers down sideways. As a result of the explosion, 6 innocent people were killed, hundreds were injured and an estimated one half billion dollars in damages were inflicted on that iconic complex of buildings located just blocks from Wall Street. That attack was also carried out by alien terrorists who managed to not only game the visa process in order to enter the United States, but the immigration benefits program that enabled them to remain in the United States and embed themselves as they went about their preparations to carry out that attack.</p>
<p>Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 there have been numerous congressional hearings that focused on how the terrorists were able to enter the United States and carry out their attacks.  In fact, there have been other terror attacks and attempted attacks.  Many experts from many fields have consistently warned about the existential threats America and Americans face today.  Yet, for the most part, they are ignored by the news media and ignored by our “leaders.”</p>
<p>I am only one of many witnesses who have done everything possible to get the “Fools on the Hill,” as I refer to all too many of our supposed political representatives in Washington, to listen.</p>
<p>It has been said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  Where terrorism is concerned, in point of fact, nn ounce of prevention is worth many tons of cure.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ImmigrationReform.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238030" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ImmigrationReform-450x232.jpg" alt="ImmigrationReform" width="306" height="158" /></a>Congress is now in recess. We can now all exhale.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While the media makes much of how members of both the Senate and House of Representatives have left Washington without accomplishing anything, I would offer a different perspective.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let&#8217;s be fair: everyone who works is entitled to vacation &#8212; even members of Congress.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here are some additional things to consider. When Congress is not in session they cannot do harm to America or Americans at the behest of their respective political party bosses or their deep-pocketed contributors or special interest groups and their lobbyist who promise to deliver blocks of votes.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When members of Congress go home they will hopefully, take some time out to meet with their constituents. This is at least as important as having them convene hearings which, having testified before so many of those hearings, myself, I have often lamented that perhaps instead of hearings they should conduct “<em>listenings</em>.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I often wonder how many people who are disdainful and contemptuous of Congress have ever actually met with, or attempted to set up a meeting with, his (her) elected representative. In all fairness, not unlike other people, members of Congress cannot read minds. Also, human nature being what it is, when politicians don&#8217;t hear from their constituents they may presume that their constituents are not particularly displeased with how they are being represented. In any event, the slogan “Out of sight-out of mind” certainly does apply.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Therefore a significant part of the blame for the mess America is in today can be traced back to lazy and uninformed citizens, who not only are likely to not vote, and do not make an effort to truly understand the issues. This is exacerbated by Americans who likely don&#8217;t even know the names of the politicians who are <i>supposed</i> to represent them on the city, state or federal levels, let alone contacted them to discuss their concerns and ideas.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When we go to a restaurant we are generally very specific about the meal we want to eat and how we want it prepared. No one would walk into a restaurant and tell the waiter or waitress, “Just throw some crap on my plate you think I should eat, and I will gladly eat it!”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If the meal that is served is not to our liking we will most probably send it back. If that doesn&#8217;t work, we are likely to “vote with our feet” and walk out the door of that restaurant and never return.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">We must be no less specific or demanding in articulating our concerns with our elected representatives as we are when placing an order with those waiters and waitresses.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Let&#8217;s now contemplate the accusation that the Congress has not accomplished much. I, for one, would actually take issue with this charge. Voting down bad legislation is not a failure to accomplish something, it is an example of using proper discretion to save us from some terrible legislation and the damage it would do to America and Americans.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The pressure is on for passage of Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Journalists on virtually every news program have been beating the drum for this legislative train wreck making all sorts of extravagant and wrong-headed claims about the wonders Comprehensive Immigration Reform and how much America needs it.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">To quote my late parents, “We need Comprehensive Immigration Reform like we need a hole in the head!”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">There are many who would profit from that legislation, but they are not the average American workers or their families. Indeed, American workers would be harmed by this legislation that would provide corporations with a virtually inexhaustible supply of cheap and compliant labor. While most people focus on how this program would provide unknown millions of heretofore illegal foreign workers with lawful status and official identity documents so that they could compete with tens of millions of unemployed or underemployed American and lawful immigrant workers &#8212; mostly for low paying jobs &#8212; Comprehensive Immigration Reform would also provide for many more H-1B visas which would apply downward pressure on wages and working conditions for highly educated and highly skilled American professionals such as computer programmers, engineers and technicians.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I have addressed the issue about the profiteers of immigration in several articles I have written for a number of websites and publications including my previous article for FrontPage Magazine, <span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-cutler/immigration-reform-engineered-destruction-of-the-middle-class/">“Immigration ‘Reform’: Engineered Destruction of the Middle Class”</a> </span><span style="color: #011480;"><i>(</i></span><span style="color: #000000;"><i>The real reason high-tech titans are lining up behind the amnesty effort)</i> which was published on July 22, 2014.</span></p>
<p>Additionally, the winter 2014 edition of the quarterly journal, “The Social Contract” included my article: <a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/twentyfour-two/tsc_24_2_cutler.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;American Dream Being Sold at Auction &#8211; America’s Middle Class to Be Put on Endangered Species List&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Congress acted wisely and did not accede to the demands of the “President who would be king.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He has bullied and threatened to once again use his pen to write more executive orders and policy memoranda to circumvent the legislative process that is an integral part of how our democratic republic is to conduct business as per that document Obama taught his students when he was a college instructor, the Constitution of the United States.</p>
<p>On June 17, 2012 Fox News posted my Op-Ed, <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/06/17/obama-invokes-prosecutorial-discretion-to-circumvent-constitution-and-congress/"><span style="color: #386eff;">&#8220;Obama Invokes Prosecutorial Discretion to Circumvent Constitution and Congress.&#8221;</span></a> I wrote it in response to the speech the president made two days earlier in the White House Rose Garden when he addressed a press conference and claimed “prosecutorial discretion” to justify essentially enacting a temporary version of the DREAM Act without the benefit of legislation. In my article I stated that he had not used prosecutorial discretion but “prosecutorial <em>deception</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Perhaps he needs to be reminded that our government is a democratic republic and not a thugocracy.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In any event, a sufficient number of members in the House of Representatives refused to be bullied and resisted the extreme pressure applied by so many to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform.</p>
<p>Most medical doctors take the “<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/hippocratic-oath-today.html"><span style="color: #386eff;">Hippocratic Oath</span></a>” when they graduate from medical school, to provide them with a moral compass to guide them in their practice of medicine, concerning how they will treat their patients.</p>
<p>“<b><i>I will keep them from harm and injustice.”</i></b></p>
<p>The classic version of that oath contains a sentence that should be added to the oaths of office for all of our elected officials, but rather than apply to patients, as it does for medical practitioners, it should apply to the constituents, the American citizens our politicians are elected to represent.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, that elegant ph</span>rase also eloquently describes what must be the goals of all of our laws, especially our immigration laws where the citizens of this great nation are concerned.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plan to reduce "wage inequality" by making Middle America poorer -- while the super rich pocket the difference. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/silicon-valley_01.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236784" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/silicon-valley_01-356x350.jpg" alt="silicon-valley_0[1]" width="274" height="269" /></a>Periodically so-called “buzz words” and “buzz phrases” become fashionable.  Of late, the concept of “wage equality” has been bandied about by members of the administration, politicians and some media personalities.</p>
<p>In point of fact, on July 15, 2014, the publication “Mail Online” published a report with a self- explanatory title:  <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2693496/Americas-rich-richer-thought-Top-1-percent-actually-control-37-percent-U-S-wealth-surveys-skewed-elite-households-dont-respond.html"><span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;America&#8217;s 1 percenters are even richer than we thought: Richest actually control 37 percent of U.S. Wealth&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p>It has been said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”  Similarly, the term wage “equality” is an emotionally evocative term that is viewed as something good and worthwhile to achieve.  Generally this is the proper perspective, but of course it is important to pose some significant questions.  For example, “How will equality be attained?”  It is also critical to understand what baseline will be established for achieving equality.  (Will wages be increased or will some wages be decreased to bring about this change?  If, in fact, some wages will be lowered, whose wages will be lowered?)</p>
<p>Finally, as we will see, sometimes inequality in wages may not be a bad thing, after all.</p>
<p>Before we consider the words many politicians use, we would be wise to consider two important quotes from George Orwell, the author of “1984” and other significant literary works.</p>
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<p style="color: #323333;"><i>&#8220;Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Having been forewarned let us now consider the definition of “equality.”</p>
<p>The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines equality this way:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>equal·i·ty</b></p>
<p><i>noun</i> \i-ˈkwä-lə-tē\</p>
<p>: the quality or state of being equal : the quality or state of having the same rights, social status, etc.</p></blockquote>
<p>The term equality is often equated with fairness and an entire government agency, the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) was established to combat discrimination against protected groups of workers who are treated disparately (unequally) because of factors such as race, religion, gender, disabilities or age.</p>
<p>Even young children inherently understand the concept of fairness &#8212; think of how many times a frustrated child is likely to complain bitterly that something or someone is “not fair!”</p>
<p>Recently various talk shows have discussed how the top one percent of Americans control a huge amount of wealth.  Last week, the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> posted a video, &#8220;<span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-john-oliver-income-inequality-last-week-tonight-20140714-story.html"><i>John Oliver tackles income inequality on</i> <i>&#8216;Last Week Tonight&#8217;</i></a>&#8220;</span><i> </i>in which Oliver spent considerable time on this issue.</p>
<p>America has made great strides to create a level playing field to provide all people with equal protection under our laws &#8212; indeed, the goal of the civil rights movement and the laws it inspired was to provide equal protection under our laws for all people, especially black Americans, going back to the issue of slavery, with equal treatment in the criminal justice system, where employment opportunities and where housing issues are concerned.</p>
<p>In short, equality has taken on the cloak of being, as the saying goes, “As American as apple pie.”  Simply uttering the word “equality” evokes the emotional image of an American flag billowing in a gentle breeze with a clear blue sky serving as a backdrop.</p>
<p>Obviously if “equality” is good, “inequality” is bad.  In <i>most</i> situations this is certainly true.</p>
<p>However, when Obama and other politicians, as well as talk show hosts, bring up wage inequality, they don&#8217;t ever discuss whose salaries will be used as the baseline against which paychecks should be compared as efforts are made to eliminate or reduce wage inequality.  People tend to see and hear what they want to see and hear.  It is akin to a Rorschach or inkblot test where the test subject is supposed to describe what they see in a blotch of ink.</p>
<p>The question that is never asked (or answered) is, “What groups are to be made more equal?”  Today the average CEO of major corporations often earn salaries that are hundreds of times greater than the wages paid to the workers earning the least money in those corporations where, just a few decades ago, this disparity in wages was far smaller.  It is naïve and, indeed, wishful thinking to believe that the push for “wage equality” is about narrowing the gap between the CEOs of most companies and the other employees of those companies, thereby expanding the middle class and increasing the standard of living for American middle class workers and their families.</p>
<p>In point of fact, the goal of the majority of advocates for the reduction of “wage inequality” is exactly the opposite: to <i>lower</i> the wages of American middle class workers and greatly reduce the gap between the middle class Americans and Americans living below the poverty line.</p>
<p>You will find proof of this in the prepared testimony provided by Alan Greenspan, when he testified before the Senate Immigration Subcommittee five years ago.  We will get to his testimony shortly.  His statements unequivocally dispel any doubt about the true goal of reducing wage inequality, the engineered destruction of America&#8217;s middle class.</p>
<p>The American Dream is inextricably linked to a vibrant and upwardly mobile middle class.  The incentives for the creation of the middle class are created by an element of wage inequality.  If this is confusing, consider that it is expected that generally, more highly skilled or educated workers should expect to earn more money than their lesser educated or skilled counterparts in the workforce.</p>
<p>This makes perfect sense and has, for generations, provided a strong incentive for American students, spurring them on to remain in school to obtain college degrees and even graduate degrees.  This is why most people think of the money, time and effort expended in pursuit of advanced degrees or enhanced skills as an important investment in their futures.  You could say that this is a case of “learn more to earn more.”</p>
<p>Where prospects for Americans, even those with the advanced degrees, achieving the “American Dream” in this economic era are concerned, a four-word phrase sums it up concisely:</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t count on it!</p>
<p>In December 2011 “Dan Rather Reports” aired a disconcerting hour-long report, <span style="color: #011480;">“<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeoBWzIRuic">No Thanks for Everything”</a></span> which reported on how highly educated and experienced American computer programmers are being replaced by programmers from India.</p>
<p>On May 15, 2007 a four-minute <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU"><span style="color: #0d2f87;">infuriating video</span></a> was aired on &#8220;Lou Dobbs Tonight&#8221; on CNN. It features an immigration lawyer&#8217;s conference in which lawyers were being coached to <i>&#8220;</i><span style="color: #9d1e1c;"><b><i>not find</i> <i>qualified U.S. workers</i></b></span><i>!&#8221; </i>The lecturer is identified in the video as being Lawrence M. Lebowitz, the Vice President of Marketing for the firm of Cohen &amp; Grigsby.</p>
<p>The Winter 2014 edition of the quarterly journal, “The Social Contract” published my extensive article on the devastating impact that Comprehensive Immigration Reform would have on the middle class and on the economy of the United States.  My article was entitled: <a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/twentyfour-two/tsc_24_2_cutler.pdf"><i>&#8220;American Dream Being Sold at Auction &#8211; America’s Middle Class to Be Put on Endangered Species List&#8221;</i></a></p>
<p>Middle class workers and the working poor are clearly getting hammered by the current importation of foreign workers.  In life there are winners and there are losers.  If American workers &#8212; especially middle class workers &#8212; are losing, and losing big, someone must be winning.  The question is simple, “Who benefits from open borders and failures to enforce the immigration laws?</p>
<p>The Spring 2012 edition of  “The Social Contract,” contains a lengthy article which I wrote that was entitled, <a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_22_3/tsc_22_3_cutler.shtml"><span style="color: #011480;">“Immigration: The Modern Day Gold Rush.”</span></a><span style="color: #011480;">  </span>In my article I attempted to answer that question as to who the big winners are.  Who are those who are literally and figuratively making out like bandits by the current circumstances.  You might be surprised to find out how many are feeding at that trough.  While it is obvious that employers who hire illegal aliens or who game the system to bring in foreign workers with visas that enable them to work in the United States for wages that are far lower than those Americans would be paid, there are others whose ability to profit financially and/or acquire political power might not be so readily apparent.</p>
<p>The list of these profiteers includes banks and money remitters who become the silent partner of every person who moves money from the United States to foreign countries.  It includes immigration attorneys who not only represent aliens but employers who seek to hire foreign workers.  Labor unions looking for more members, which translates into more union dues and more political leverage, are certainly on board with this concept, as are the National Chamber of Commerce and many but not all local Chambers of Commerce.  Schools are eager to bring in foreign students and at present the GAO estimates that there are some 10,000 schools that are authorized to file the appropriate applications to enable foreign students to come to the United States.</p>
<p>The list goes on &#8212; but I think you get the point.</p>
<p>Facilitating the entry of still more foreign workers and more foreign students would create still more devastation for American workers and their families but would greatly increase the wealth of the super wealthy who are at the absolute top of the economic food chain in America.</p>
<p>On August 30, 2013 “Business Insider” published a Reuters news article: <i><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/poverty-effect-on-intelligence-2013-8?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+businessinsider/warroom+(War+Room)">&#8220;Poverty Stresses The Brain So Much That It&#8217;s Like Losing 13 IQ Points</a>.</i>&#8221;</p>
<p>The title of that alarming report makes it clear that poverty often becomes self-perpetuating.</p>
<p>Notwithstanding these facts, many corporate executives are eager to import foreign workers and foreign students, apparently to lower wages and increase corporate profit. This is seemingly the driving force behind the assertions by such individuals as Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg and Mark Zuckerberg, that there are not enough high-tech workers in the United States and that the United States must import entrepreneurs if America is to remain successful. What no one seems to have noticed is that they themselves are all native-born American citizens. Additionally, while Elon Musk, the founder of Pay-Pal, the Tesla car company and Space-X, was born in South Africa, he was provided with lawful status in the United States, providing clear evidence that this component of the immigration system already in place works. However, the lack of integrity and ability to weed out fraud in work-based visas all too often provides aliens with visas they would not have been granted if the fraud had been uncovered.</p>
<p>The infamous bank robber, Willie Sutton, when asked why he robbed banks said simply, “That’s where the money is!” Today CEO’s seek to find employees oversees in Third World countries because that where the cheap labor is.</p>
<p>Now we need to consider how the concept of reducing “wage inequality” was used deceptively by Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, in his <a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/greenspan_testimony_04_30_09.pdf"><span style="color: #386eff;">prepared testimony</span></a> when he addressed a hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security conducted a hearing on April 30, 2009 on the topic:  <span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&amp;app_id=46744042133&amp;channel=http://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/V80PAcvrynR.js?version=41">&#8220;Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>While many disclaimers we hear on television commercials are recited by announcers sounding ever more like auctioneers, making it all but impossible to actually hear the verbal equivalent of small print, Alan Greenspan&#8217;s way of delivering the bad news is to speak in a droning, syrupy, monotone voice.  Greenspan&#8217;s sentences are often structured to further obfuscate what he is saying as are the words he carefully selects.</p>
<p>During his testimony at that hearing, Greenspan spoke of the advantages to the employment of foreign workers &#8212; both illegal aliens, as well as high-skilled aliens admitted into the United States &#8212; with visas that enable them to take the high-tech jobs.  In fact, he called for greatly increasing the number of highly skilled (and educated) foreign workers.</p>
<p>In this excerpt from his testimony, it is clear that he understands what most Americans want, but he could not care less:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>There are two distinctly different policy issues that confront the Congress. The first is illegal immigration. The notion of rewarding with permanent resident status those who have broken our immigration laws does not sit well with the American people. In a recent poll, two-thirds would like to see the number of illegals decreased.</i></p>
<p><i>But there is little doubt that unauthorized, that is, illegal, immigration has made a significant</i> <i>contribution to the growth of our economy. Between 2000 and 2007, for example, it accounted for more than a sixth of the increase in our total civilian labor force.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Greenspan glossed over the significant costs on state and local governments and minimized the issue of wage suppression.  When people are among the working poor, every cent they earn counts.  He noted the imposition of significant costs on some state and local governments, but what is significant is that corporations will make more money even as they off-shore their manufacturing facilities and their profits to minimize labor costs, violate safety and environmental laws and standards and certtainly dodge paying taxes in the United States.</p>
<p>This should surprise no one.   What level of empathy would you expect of someone who could complain about too much money being paid to middle class workers (<i>the privileged elite </i>as he referred<i> </i>to them)?</p>
<p>This is precisely the position he took when he went on to support the claims that had been made by Bill Gates at a previous hearing that the United States needs to admit far more high-skilled workers into the United States.  Here is how Greenspan&#8217;s testimony addressed this issue:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>First, skilled workers and their families form new households. They will, of necessity, move into vacant housing units, the current glut of which is depressing prices of American homes. And, of course, house price declines are a major factor in mortgage foreclosures and the plunge in value of the vast quantity of U.S. mortgage-backed securities that has contributed substantially to the disabling of our banking system.</i></p>
<p><i>The second bonus would address the increasing concentration of income in this country.  Greatly expanding our quotas for the highly skilled would lower wage premiums of skilled over lesser skilled. Skill shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. Quotas have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process, we have created a privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at noncompetitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of our income inequality.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It is beyond belief that Greenspan could refer to American middle class workers as the “privileged elite” or that such an outrageous statement could be made at a Senate hearing and go unreported.  Yet this is precisely what happened.</p>
<p>Most people equate Comprehensive Immigration Reform with a massive amnesty for unknown millions of illegal aliens who have violated America&#8217;s borders and immigration laws that are <i>supposed</i> to protect American lives and the jobs of American workers, thereby creating a national security nightmare.</p>
<p>What is generally not known is that among the provisions of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the legislative betrayal of American citizens, is that it would provide for a huge increase in the number of H-1B visas for high tech workers and a provision that would, for the very first time, permit the spouses and adult children of H-1B visa holders to be granted Employment Authorization Documents (EAD&#8217;s) that would give these nonimmigrant family members as much right to any job as an American worker.</p>
<p>Greenspan said that American workers should no longer be shielded from foreign competition.  This is a key area of “reform” that this legislation would deliver.  Under the current immigration laws, <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182"><span style="color: #011480;">Title 8 U.S. Code § 1182: (Inadmissible Aliens)</span></a> enumerates various categories of aliens who are to be prevented from entering the U.S.  The list of excludible classes of aliens includes aliens who suffer dangerous communicable diseases, severe mental illness, fugitives from justice, aliens who are convicted felons, spies, terrorists, war criminals, human rights violators, and others whose presence would undermine national security and/or public safety.</p>
<p>This section of law also addresses the issue of protecting the jobs, wages, and working conditions of the American worker. Here is the relevant portion of this section of law:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>(5) Labor certification and qualifications for certain immigrants</i></p>
<p><i>(A) Labor certification</i></p>
<p><i>(i) In general Any alien who seeks to enter the U.S. for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor is inadmissible, unless the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified to the Secretary of State and the Attorney General that —</i></p>
<p><i>(I) there are not sufficient workers who are able, willing, qualified (or equally qualified in the case of an alien described in clause (ii)) and available at the time of application for a visa and admission to the U.S. and at the place where the alien is to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, and</i></p>
<p><i>(II) the employment of such alien will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the U.S. similarly employed.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Eliminating these provisions of our immigration laws would accomplish precisely what Greenspan called for when he said that American workers should no longer be shielded from foreign competition so that the “wage premiums” being paid to American workers could be eliminated.  This is not about decreasing the wage disparity between America&#8217;s super wealthy and other Americans but about greatly reducing the wage disparity between America&#8217;s middle class and Americans living below the poverty level.</p>
<p>Senator Ted Cruz, however, is truly leading the charge against American high-tech workers.  He provided an amendment to Comprehensive Immigration Reform (S.744) referred to as “Cruz 5.” The goal of his amendment was made crystal clear in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlGlNwsQb0"><span style="color: #011480;">the video of statements by Cruz</span></a><span style="color: #011480;"><b> </b></span>at a Senate hearing on this issue.  His amendment provides for a 500% increase in the cap for H-1B visas, increasing the current annual cap of 65,000 such visas to an outrageous 325,000 Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) professionals.</p>
<p>When the Labor Department reports on the unemployment rate &#8212; currently estimated to be 6.1% &#8212; the fact that nearly 100 million Americans of working age are not working is utterly ignored, both in the statistics and in the way that roughly one-third of American citizens are left out of the equation.  This is a bit like a surgeon conferring with the family of a patient who has died on the operating table telling the family that the news is not all bad, at least the deceased in not suffering from a fever.</p>
<p>Politicians &#8212; Democrats and Republicans alike &#8212; seek every opportunity to call for educating more foreign students because, they claim, that we need to bring the world&#8217;s best and brightest students and workers to the United States so that America can be successful, often stating that we should be “stapling green cards onto the diplomas and degrees earned by those foreign students so that they will not go back to their home countries half-way around the world upon graduating.”</p>
<p>What they fail to note is that we have a term for the world&#8217;s “Best and Brightest” &#8212; they are called <em>Americans</em>!</p>
<p>The assertions about the need to import the world&#8217;s best and brightest to fill a supposed lack of qualified workers are utterly false.</p>
<p>On January 2, 2014 the <em>Global Post</em> published a report written by James Tapper.</p>
<p style="color: #011480;"><span style="color: #000000;">The title and subtitle of his report summed up his findings succinctly:<a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/131210/the-indian-tech-worker-h-1b-visa-scam">&#8220;The Indian tech worker H-1B visa scam: </a></span> <i><a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/131210/the-indian-tech-worker-h-1b-visa-scam">More than 1 in 3 US tech jobs go to foreigners. Americans, and many foreigners, get cheated in the process. Obama and Zuckerberg want to let in more.&#8221;</a></i></p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from Tapper&#8217;s article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Unemployment </i><a href="http://cew.georgetown.edu/unemployment2013/"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>rates are high</i></span></a><i> for information systems graduates, with 14.7 percent out of work.</i></p>
<p><i>The competition from foreign workers also depresses wages for Americans. The </i><a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-microsoft-report-distorts/"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>average hourly wage</i></span></a><i> for computer and mathematics graduates was $37.27 in 2000, and $39.24 in 2011 — an average rise of less than 0.5 percent per year.</i></p>
<p><i>And </i><a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/bp359-guestworkers-high-skill-labor-market-analysis/"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>research</i></span></a><i> from the Economic Policy Institute contends that only half of American students who graduate with a degree in science, technology, engineering or maths ends up with a job in that field.</i></p>
<p><i>“It has nothing to do with any lack of American workers,” Professor Hira said. “It is simply that the foreign workers will work for less.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>When aliens marry American spouses solely to acquire lawful immigrant status, such an arrangement is referred to as a “Marriage of Convenience.”  Such a “marriage” constitutes a federal crime, one involving fraud, wherein the alien gains lawful immigrant status by deception and defrauding the government and the citizen “spouse” is paid for involvement in the scam.</p>
<p>Today there is a new sort of  “marriage of convenience” impacting immigration &#8212; this one involves corporate executives who are normally at each other&#8217;s corporate throats, but who have joined forces for a common goal- flooding America with as many foreign workers as possible to drive down wages and other labor-related costs.  These CEOs consistently lie about the supposed need for foreign high-tech workers because of a purported shortage of qualified Americans.  They have also pumped huge sums of money into this effort to influence politicians about this alleged “shortage.”</p>
<p>Politico reported on this “marriage of convenience” in its September 2013 article, <span style="color: #011480;"><a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ixzz2gNNiaQva">&#8220;Tech rivals joining forces on NSA, immigration.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>Here is how this report began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>They trash each other in the marketplace and sue each other in courts.</i></p>
<p><i>But lately, tech companies and their leaders have been holding hands to fight for things they care about in Washington, from immigration reform to National Security Agency damage control.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The report went on to note:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The primary example is immigration reform. Tech company lobbyists and industry trade groups have linked arms to work for passage of legislation, holding Monday strategy calls, deploying teams to focus on lawmakers by party and by chamber and acting as a coordinator among the disparate groups pushing Congress to act.</i></p>
<p><i>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tapped Silicon Valley’s leading executives and investors to join his reform advocacy group, FWD.us. His group and others in the tech sector are pushing for comprehensive immigration reform, an evolution from the industry’s past strategy of focusing narrowly on its desire for more high-skilled visas.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Although my focus is the immigration issue, it is important to note that the Politico article reported that the CEOs of these competing companies are also uniting to push globalist positions to enable them to move data across international borders.</p>
<p>For these CEOs, profits trump America&#8217;s national security and the lives and livelihoods of Americans.</p>
<p>They have even convinced others to get into their “marital bed.”</p>
<p style="color: #011480;"><span style="color: #000000;">Consider the February 4, 2014 Breitbart report written by Matthew Boyle, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/04/Democratic-Party-operative-helped-prepare-Zuckerberg-s-House-GOP-pro-amnesty-packet">&#8220;Former Democrat Operative Helped Prepare Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Amnesty Pitch to GOP.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>Here is how this report begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>FWD.us, the pro-amnesty brainchild of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, made a big splash at the House GOP retreat last week in Cambridge, Maryland, with a packet distributed to every lawmaker touting the benefits of a big, comprehensive reform bill.</i></p>
<p><i>However, the Republicans who received the document might be interested to learn that one of its co-authors (Jennifer Martin) is a hardened Democratic party operative.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The Daily Caller&#8217;s article, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/19/zuckerbergs-lobby-group-announces-hackathon-with-illegal-immigrants/"><span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;Zuckerberg’s lobby group announces hackathon with illegal immigrants,&#8221;</span></a>  focused on a unique program created by Zuckerberg and his Silicon Valley cohorts to provide opportunities expressly for illegal aliens.</p>
<p>The article began with this statement:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Tech-savvy illegal immigrants are being given a chance to prove their mettle alongside renown American technology entrepreneurs in an upcoming contest in Silicon Valley, where they will code and create projects to promote comprehensive immigration reform.</i></p>
<p><i>Facebook founder and CEO Zuckerberg’s political action committee, FWD.us, is hoping to showcase the programming talents of members of the technology community who would most directly benefit from comprehensive immigration reform: illegal immigrants.</i></p>
<p><i>The contest, called a hackathon, will be </i><a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/_blank"><span style="color: #011480;"><i>held</i></span></a><i> at LinkedIn’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. from Nov. 20 to 21.</i></p>
<p><i>Zuckerberg, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason, and Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston are expected to work alongside the hackathon’s participants as mentors throughout the event.</i></p>
<p><i>“Each team will create a project or application that could help supporters share stories, contact members of Congress or show family and friends why they want meaningful immigration reform,” FWD.us states on its website.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Ironically, Zuckerberg referred to this stunt as a “Hackathon.”  A computer hacker is one who accesses computers by breaking in.  Here he provided encouragement for illegal aliens to break into the United States and acquire educational and career opportunities he would joyfully provide to them, but not to desperate fellow Americans or lawful immigrants.</p>
<p>Why could not this incredible opportunity have been provided to<i> American</i> children &#8212; perhaps especially those living in poverty?  It is reported that some 25% of all American children now live below the poverty line.  Many of these children are members of America&#8217;s minority communities.</p>
<p>Why not provide such opportunities to returning battle-weary and/or wounded members of the U.S. military?</p>
<p>Zuckerberg and his cohorts know that the administration won&#8217;t ask them those questions nor seek to take punitive actions against them for providing such opportunities to illegal aliens.  The DHS, an agency I have come to refer to as the Department of Homeland Surrender, is no more likely to act against Zuckerberg than it is to act against sanctuary cities that shield illegal aliens from detection by the federal government.</p>
<p>Some of these “illegal immigrants” may not be who they claim that they are.  Some may have entered the United States with nefarious intentions and may not have actually entered the United States as children as they claim.  This is the same vulnerability with the “DREAMERS” who have until age 31 to file an application in which they claim to have entered the United States before the age of 15.  There is no record of their entry and their true identities cannot be verified.  Providing high-tech training to such foreign nationals engenders unacceptable national security risks.</p>
<p>On March 26, 2013 CNBC posted an insightful report that was, itself, predicated on a Sunlight Foundation report.  The title of the CNBC article paints a clear picture, <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/100593528"><span style="color: #0d4399;">&#8220;Our Massively One-Sided Immigration Debate.&#8221;</span></a></p>
<p>Here is an important excerpt from the CNBC report:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>As it turns out, while Americans remain divided on immigration, the lobbyists are not.</i></p>
<p><i>The Sunlight Foundation, a do-gooder government transparency and accountability outfit formed in 2006, on Monday released &#8220;</i><a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/03/25/immigration/"><span style="color: #0d4399;"><i>Untangling the Webs of immigration Lobbying</i></span></a><i>,&#8221; a report examining the organizations that have led the charge for changing the rules on immigration to the United States.</i></p>
<p><i>Sunlight dug through 8,000 lobbying reports filed since the last big push for immigration reform in 2007. Six-thousand seven-hundred and twelve of those involved immigration lobbying. More than $1.5 billion was spent on this immense lobbying push.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Members of the leadership in the House of Representatives, perhaps bowing the pressures of that gargantuan lobbying effort, have expressed a willingness to provide illegal aliens with lawful status.</p>
<p>On December 4, 2013 <em>The Fiscal Times</em> published an important report: <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/12/04/Obamas-Immigration-Sop-Silicon-Valley">&#8220;Obama’s Immigration Sop to Silicon Valley&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Here is how this report begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>“Is President Obama’s push for more STEM grads and increased H-1B visas payback to the tech companies that got him re-elected? It seems possible. While the likes of Google and Microsoft have been sounding alarms over a shortage of technical workers, other research indicates that in fact we may have too many college graduates with degrees in science and math. Critics charge that Silicon Valley has promoted the shortage myth to gain support for policies — like those promoted by the president — that ultimately aim to keep a lid on tech pay.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>With all of the frustration so many Americans now justifiably feel about their representation (or lack thereof) by the administration and by Congress, it is essential to note that one of the implacable stalwart champions and defenders of American workers and their families is Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama.</p>
<p style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #000000;">In fact, on May 16, 2014 Breitbart posted an article with a crystal clear title, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/16/Scholars-Debunk-Claims-of-High-Tech-Workers-Shortage-Question-Industry-s-Free-Pass">&#8220;Scholars Debunk Claims of High-Tech Workers Shortage, Question Industry&#8217;s &#8216;Free Pass.&#8217; &#8220;</a></span></p>
<p>The article noted that:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>On a Friday conference call that was organized by the office of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who has been relentless in standing up for American workers and their interests during the amnesty debate, Hal Salzman, a Rutgers University public policy professor, said current wages in the high-tech and information technology (IT) industries do not reflect a labor shortage.Matloff said the high-tech industry has gotten a &#8220;free ride&#8221; from the media and enjoys a very &#8220;positive image&#8221; in this debate, which he said has &#8220;really been a non-debate.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Here are several additional significant quotes from this article.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #386eff;"><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCgQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2FBig-Government%2F2013%2F11%2F27%2FReport-Claims-of-Shortage-of-High-Tech-Workers-a-Myth&amp;ei=5YB2U7n5C9GRqgbB1YHICQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNEtaCYlXbMaSJRRtuErYbYDH1S2eA&amp;bvm=bv.66917471,d.b2k"><i>The myth</i></a><i> </i></span><i>that there are such widespread labor shortages in the high-tech industry </i><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/21/Atlantic-No-Empirical-Evidence-to-Support-Claims-of-Shortage-of-American-High-Tech-Workers"><span style="color: #386eff;"><i>has been debunked</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><i> </i></span><i>in numerous studies, but </i><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/15/After-Backing-Amnesty-Tea-Party-Express-Chair-Claims-He-Stands-with-Sen-Sessions-American-Workers"><span style="color: #386eff;"><i>Republicans</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><i> </i></span><i>and </i><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/02/Schumer-Blasts-Hateful-Steve-King-on-Amnesty-Falsely-Claims-High-Tech-Worker-Shortage"><span style="color: #386eff;"><i>Democrats</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><i> </i></span><i>have continued to, as the scholars noted, perpetuate it without being challenged on their specious claims. High-tech lobbies like Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s </i><a href="http://fwd.us/"><span style="color: #386eff;"><i>FWD.us</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><i> </i></span><i>have poured in millions of dollars in high-profile campaigns to secure more high-tech visas.</i></p>
<p><i>And they have partly been succeeding. The Senate&#8217;s amnesty bill that passed last year would double and possibly </i><b><i>triple </i></b><i>the number of high-tech visas and, as Breitbart News has reported, House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Bob Goodlatte&#8217;s (R-VA) &#8220;</i><a href="http://mashable.com/2013/05/23/stem-immigration-visas/"><span style="color: #386eff;"><i>SKILLS&#8221;</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><i> </i></span><i>Act that that passed out of his committee would </i><b><i>double </i></b><i>the number of H-1B visas.</i></p>
<p><i>Ron Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology who has worked on these issues for more than a decade, said on the conference call that the H-1B visas that are filling the supposed &#8220;gaps&#8221; are &#8220;doing more harm than good&#8221; to the U.S. science and engineering workforce.</i></p>
<p><i>He noted that the majority of the H-1B visas are being used for &#8220;cheaper workers&#8221; from abroad and mentioned that offshoring firms used 50% of the cap last year to further their business model of bringing in &#8220;lower-cost H-1B workers to replace American workers.&#8221; Salzman said that even after American software engineers train their replacements, they cannot speak out about their experiences for fear of being blackballed or having to forfeit their severance payments.</i></p>
<p><i>Hira said that the H-1B program has run amok because &#8220;Congress sets the wage floors way too low&#8221; and &#8220;far below the market wages for American workers&#8221; while not placing any &#8220;requirement to look for or recruit American workers first, so there is no displacement of American workers.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;As a result, you are basically inducing companies to game the system to bring foreign workers to undercut American workers,&#8221; Hira noted. &#8220;Instead of complimenting the U.S. workers as it should, it&#8217;s substituting for the U.S. workforce and taking away future opportunities by shifting the work overseas.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Here is an additional quote from the article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>IT guest workers are on pace to make up 30-40% of the entire IT workforce even when there are </i><a href="http://issues.org/29-4/what-shortages-the-real-evidence-about-the-stem-workforce/"><span style="color: #386eff;"><i>50% more</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><i> </i></span><i>graduates than job openings in the STEM fields.</i></p>
<p><i>Further, Matloff emphasized that H1-B visa holders earn 5-10% less on average than American workers and there is a high churn rate that gives companies a &#8220;never-ending supply of new hires,&#8221; allowing them to replace workers over the age of 35 while weakening the &#8220;bargaining position of current workers.&#8221;The Senate bill, Matloff said, exacerbates this problem by providing 150% of the visas that the IT industry has said they needed at the beginning of the debate.</i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;You are replacing more innovative people with less innovative people, which also will amount to a net loss for the U.S. economy,&#8221; Matloff said, saying, for instance, that there are </i><a href="http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html"><span style="color: #386eff;"><i>fewer patents per capita</i></span></a><span style="color: #386eff;"><i> </i></span><i>produced by those from abroad than those in America.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>As a result, fewer Americans are able to move up the economic ladder through the high-tech fields. And the problem has gotten worse since the H-1B spigots were opened in the 1990s.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>They are ignoring the obvious: That the best way to make certain that students who acquire vital education in the United States don&#8217;t leave the United States is to educate American students.  Upon graduation, rather than go half-way across the planet, they will simply go half-way across town and take jobs inside the United States.  This will help Americans and also the American economy.  Foreign workers, both legally and illegally working in the United States, last year sent at least 125 billion dollars in remittances back to their home countries.  Economists estimate that because of the multiplier effect this alone increases America&#8217;s burgeoning national debt by roughly a half trillion dollars per year.  Now consider the impact this further has on the displacement of American workers who go from being tax-paying middle class consumers to joining the growing ranks of Americans living below the poverty line who lose their homes to foreclosure and lose their disposable income, creating a further drag on our nation&#8217;s economy.</p>
<p>I would argue that all of America&#8217;s national debt could be eliminated by effective immigration law enforcement coupled with “going back to the future” by making certain that <i>American Citizens</i> be provided with a world class education and preference in the workforce.  This is how the “Greatest Generation” built America&#8217;s Middle Class and with it, the American Dream.</p>
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		<title>Border Security and the Immigration Colander</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the breakdown of the Southwest border is only the tip of the iceberg. ]]></description>
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<p>When you consider how many ways an alien may enter the United States it is absurd to focus all attention on just the Southwest Border of the United States that involves just four of America&#8217;s 50 states.</p>
<p>In point of fact, it has been estimated that 40% of the illegal aliens who are present in the United States did not run our border and evade the inspections process that is supposed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence would be harmful to America or Americans but entered the United States through ports of entry and went on, in various ways, to violate the terms of their admission into the United States.</p>
<p>Furthermore, some illegal aliens gain entry into the United States by stowing away on ships, illegal disembark from ships on which they work and are referred to as “ship-jumpers” or enter without inspection from Canada.</p>
<p>Yet the immigration debate has disingenuously focused nearly exclusively, on the need to secure America&#8217;s Southwest Border that is <i>supposed</i> to separate the United States from Mexico.</p>
<p>Of course, given the ongoing crisis involving tens of thousands of unaccompanied minor illegal aliens, primarily from Central America, who are showing up along the Southwest Border of the United States having illegally entered the United States, it is clear that this border <i>must </i>be made secure.  However, it is foolhardy to not pay attention to all of the other entry points and methods of entry employed by illegal aliens.  It is no less foolish to ignore the other failings of the immigration system that enable criminals and terrorists to game the process by which visas are issued and immigration benefits are conferred upon aliens.</p>
<p>The easiest way to visualize the immigration system is to consider the configuration of a colander.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colander">Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a colander</a> thusly:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>col·an·der </b><i>noun</i> \ˈkä-lən-dər, ˈkə-\</p>
<p>: a bowl that has many small holes and that is used for washing or draining food</p></blockquote>
<p>Consider that each of the holes in the colander is comparable to a hole in the immigration system.  Politicians who attempt to convince us that all that is necessary as a pre-requisite for implementing Comprehensive Immigration Reform is to secure the US/Mexican border are, in essence, claiming that if you plug one hole in the bottom of a colander it could then be used as a bucket to carry water.</p>
<p>How preposterous is that?</p>
<p>If you want to use a colander as a bucket to carry water, all of the holes need to be plugged.</p>
<p>No less than national security and public safety hang in the balance.</p>
<p>Imagine that from time to time that colander is not used to carry water but a deadly liquid, that must not be released.  This is not unlike the fact that among the aliens seeking to enter the United States in violation of our laws, are terrorists and pernicious criminals with deadly intentions.</p>
<p>Yet the politicians are so hell-bent on passing Comprehensive Immigration Reform that they willfully ignore the other failures of the immigration system upon which national security depends.</p>
<p>Think back to the politicians who, in the wake of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, demanded to know “Why no one connected the dots?”  Think back to the statements frequently made that the terrorists need to get it right only once while our government needs to get it right 100% of the time.</p>
<p>Each hole in the colander represents a hole in the system which must get it right 100% of the time.</p>
<p>The concept of getting it right at all times was, and continues to be used, as justification for the continual erosion of our expectations of privacy and freedom.</p>
<p>This concept is used as justification for the ever more invasive search we are forced to undergo before boarding airliners.  Indeed, we generally accept these invasive searches because of our concerns about the potential that hijackers could once again take control of an airliner and use it as a de facto cruise missile.</p>
<p>However, there are many ways that terrorists can launch attacks inside the United States that don&#8217;t involve airliners, as we saw on May 1, 2010 when Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen who had immigrated to the United States from Pakistan and naturalized the year before he attempted to set off a car bomb, parked in highly congested “Crossroads of the World,” Times Square.</p>
<p>At the time of his arrest two days after the attempted attack, Shahzad was arrested as he sat on an an Emirates Airline flight waiting to take off for Dubai.  Reportedly more than a dozen of his accomplices were arrested in Pakistan.  All were reportedly acting under the direction of the Taliban.</p>
<p>On April 15, 2013 the Tsarnaev brothers carried out a deadly attack on the Boston Marathon.  The Tsarnaev family had been granted political asylum in the United States when they claimed “credible fear” that they could not safely return to their native Russia &#8212; that they would face persecution or worse.  No sooner had their applications for asylum been approved than they voluntarily returned to Russia.  It would certainly appear that they committed fraud in their applications.</p>
<p>On May 2, 2013 I was interviewed by Megyn Kelly of Fox News to discuss the immigration aspects of this case. Fox News posted a video of the interview on its website with the title: <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/05/02/immigration-expert-system-much-worse-shape-people-think">&#8220;Immigration Expert: The System Failed in Boston and Keeps on Failing.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Our government should be as determined to keep terrorists and transnational criminals out of the United States as it is determined to prevent terrorists from gaining access to airliners.</p>
<p>Yet our government refuses to do what is necessary to prevent the entry of international terrorists and transnational criminals into the United States.  As a consequence we live among millions of illegal aliens who evaded the inspections process conducted at ports of entry by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) Inspectors, that is supposed to keep dangerous foreign nationals out of the United States.</p>
<p>Consider the first paragraph found in the preface of the <a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_terrtrav_monograph.pdf"><span style="color: #092770;">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>If you doubt that our borders lack integrity, you may certainly consider the situation unfolding on the Southwest Border that has, of late, garnered such focused press coverage.  You may also consider that the United States is currently suffering from such a massive epidemic of heroin overdoses that police departments across the United States have taken to the unprecedented strategy of providing their officers with the antidote to heroin overdoses.</p>
<p>Heroin and cocaine are produced outside the United States.  Every gram of heroin and every gram of cocaine present in the United States represent incontrovertible evidence of a failure of border security.</p>
<p>It is worth noting that the proceeds from the sale of heroin and cocaine enrich the coffers of transnational criminal organizations and terrorist organizations, further endangering America and Americans.  It is worth noting that there is a direct nexus between drug use and crime- indeed, it is believed that the majority of crime, especially violent crime is connected to narcotics trafficking and the use of illegal drugs.</p>
<p>On July 4, 2014 NewsMax posted an article, <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/texas-border-immigration-surge/2014/07/04/id/580857/?ns_mail_uid=4092516&amp;ns_mail_job=1576071_07042014&amp;promo_code=kz5zmk6d"><span style="color: #011480;">&#8220;Rep. Michael McCaul: Military Bases Turning Into Refugee Camps&#8221;</span></a> that began with the following paragraph:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Texas lawmakers have demanded that President Barack Obama finally secure the border, saying military bases are being overwhelmed as they house thousands of illegal immigrant children pouring into the United States every month.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The article further noted:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>During a Homeland Security Committee field hearing in McAllen, Texas, attended by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, McCaul said that government statistics show 70 percent of the alien children risk life and limb to get into the United States illegally because they believe they will be allowed to stay.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;The border between the U.S. and Mexico is less secure than at any point in the recent past,&#8221; Perry told the field hearing, according to the Times. &#8220;Secure this border, Mr. president. Finally, address this issue and secure this border.&#8221;</p>
<p>Finally it is worthwhile considering this quote attributed to Rep. Bob Goodlatte the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, said Border Patrol agents had told GOP and Democratic lawmakers during their field trip that &#8220;the best way to stop this crisis is through deterrence,&#8221; The Washington Times reported.  &#8220;They were very clear that deterrence must be the focus and there must be an end to the so-called catch-and-release policy.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Chairman Goodlatte is absolutely correct &#8212; effective deterrence is undoubtedly the only effective solution to the immigration crisis confronting America and Americans today.</p>
<p>However, thus far, precious few members of Congress are willing to go beyond the concept of securing the Southwest border to include plugging the other gaping holes in the immigration system that go well beyond the U.S./Mexican border.</p>
<p>“The Social Contract,” a quarterly journal, published my article, <a href="http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_4/tsc_23_4_cutler.shtml"><span style="color: #386eff;">&#8220;Political Asylum: Where Compassion and National Security Intersect”</span></a> in its Summer, 2013 edition, on how fraud in the political asylum program currently enables our enemies to see in America&#8217;s compassion, weakness.</p>
<p style="color: #386eff;"><span style="color: #000000;">On November 20, 2013, ABC News published this disconcerting article <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">&#8220;Exclusive: US May Have Let &#8216;Dozens&#8217; of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees.&#8221;</a></span></p>
<p>On December 1, 2013 the Huffington Post ran a worrying report: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/01/dianne-feinstein-america-less-safe_n_4367906.html">&#8220;America Is &#8216;Less Safe&#8217; Than 2 Years Ago, Intelligence Committee Chairs Say&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The report focused on statements made by Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate&#8217;s Intelligence Committee, when she was interviewed for CNN&#8217;s program, “State of the Union.”</p>
<p>Here is how the report began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Interviewed on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she believed that there are now more terrorists with the technological means to carry out a bombing in the U.S.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Here is an additional important excerpt from the Huffington Post article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I think terror is up worldwide,&#8221; said Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. &#8220;There are new bombs, very big bombs, trucks being reinforced for those bombs. There are bombs that go through magnetometers. The bomb-maker is still alive. There are more groups than ever. And there is huge malevolence out there.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>Feinstein added that there was &#8220;a real displaced aggression in this very fundamentalist jihadist Islamic community, and that is that the West is responsible for everything that goes wrong and that the only thing that&#8217;s going to solve this is Islamic Sharia law.&#8221;</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On the same day, December 1, 2013 Newsmax posted the report that provided an even more dire warning: <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/feinstein-rogers-terror-threat/2013/12/01/id/539316?ns_mail_uid=4092516&amp;ns_mail_job=1548232_12012013&amp;promo_code=15c7c-1">&#8220;Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Rogers: Terror Threat Greater Than Before Sept 11&#8243;</a></p>
<p>This report began with this unambiguous assessment:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The U.S. is in greater danger of a terrorist attack than it was prior to September 11 and has less ability to prevent such aggression by Islamist radicals, key congressional intelligence leaders said Sunday.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The report ended with the following statement:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Feinstein is pushing legislation to protect NSA practices but require more congressional reporting.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Feinstein is willing to accept a loss of privacy in the name of national security while she blithely ignores anything that relates to the 9/11 Commission, its findings or its recommendations.  She has many like-minded colleagues on both sides of the political aisle and in both the Senate and House of Representatives.</p>
<p>These politicians need to hear from their constituents, especially as election day approaches.</p>
<p>Democracy is not a spectator sport.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's first line of defense against foreign threats is wearing thin. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/02-border-bikes-full.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234905" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/02-border-bikes-full-450x300.jpg" alt="Border IOU" width="270" height="180" /></a>The term “The thin blue line” is associated with law enforcement, especially the police. The phrase is based on the usual color of the police uniform and the fact that the relatively small numbers of sworn police officers is all that stands between the citizenry of towns, cities and states and criminals.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The uniforms that the members of the United States Border Patrol wear is green. Sometimes the Border Patrol has been referred to as the “Green Machine.” The mission of the United States Border Patrol is to secure America&#8217;s borders between ports of entry against the illegal entry of aliens whose presence would be harmful or dangerous to America and Americans. The idea is to make certain that aliens seeking entry into the United States are subjected to the inspections process conducted by CBP (Customs and Border Protection) Inspectors.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The guiding principle behind the inspections process is to make certain that aliens who should be excluded from the United States are prevented from entering the United States. <span style="color: #000000;">One of the sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182"><span style="color: #386eff;">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</span></a></span><span style="color: #0d2f87;">, </span><span style="color: #000000;">enumerates the categories of aliens who are to be excluded </span>and includes aliens who suffer dangerous contagious diseases, severe mental illness and are violent, aliens who are convicted felons, human and/or narcotics traffickers, human rights violators, war criminals, spies, terrorists and aliens who would likely become public charges or work illegally therefore displacing American workers or driving down the wages and/or working conditions of American workers.</p>
<p>The law, incidentally, is utterly and totally blind as to race, religion and ethnicity.</p>
<p>While the advocates for open borders describe aliens who evade the inspections process as being “Undocumented,” in point of fact, these aliens are <i>Un-Inspected</i>. In fact, my colleagues and I at the former INS referred to the method of entry of aliens who evaded the vital inspections process as being EWI (<b>E</b>ntry <b>W</b>ithout <b>I</b>nspection).</p>
<p>This is hardly inconsequential. To draw a comparison- would you, or any reasonable person be willing to board an airliner if you observed several passengers sneak past the TSA inspectors and get on the airliner you were about to board? I am very confident you would not.</p>
<p>Why then are we being forced, by our own government, to live among unknown millions of foreign nationals (aliens) whose true identities- including their country of citizenship, possible criminal histories and possible affiliation with criminal or terrorist organizations or medical or mental well-being is unknown and unknowable?</p>
<p>You should also consider that an alien who is “undocumented” has no official and reliable identity document to provide clear evidence about his (her) true identity. It may, in fact, be that this individual has such an identity document but has decided to conceal or destroy it, knowing that his name is on terror watch lists or is a wanted fugitive. The term “undocumented” is hardly as innocuous or inconsequential as the immigration anarchists would have us believe.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In addition to preventing the entry of aliens whose presence would be problematic for America and Americans, the Border Patrol is also charged with preventing the entry of contraband.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The valiant men and women of the United States Border Patrol constitutes that “Thin green line” that is all that stands between America and its citizens and international terrorists, transnational criminals and contraband and including narcotics and possibly, God forbid, a weapon of mass destruction.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Today with tens of thousands of illegal aliens charging our southwest border, Border Patrol agents have been taken off of their usual duties relating to securing our already extremely porous borders and assigned to providing concierge service to these illegal aliens, many of whom are reportedly unaccompanied minors.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">I wrote about this outrageous situation in my previous commentary for Front Page Magazine that was published on June 11, 2014, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-cutler/obamas-manufactured-crisis-at-the-border/?utm_source=FrontPage+Mag"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Obama’s Manufactured Crisis at the Border.”</span></a></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The reassignment of these Border Patrol agents endangers national security and public safety as well as public health. It also makes it far more likely that aliens who evade the inspections process will succeed in covertly entering the United States. As more aliens succeed in evading detection and apprehension, more aspiring illegal aliens will become encouraged and emboldened to charge our borders.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The mission of the United States Border Patrol, as noted on the <a href="http://www.cbp.gov/about"><span style="color: #1255cc;">official website of CBP</span></a> (Customs and Border Protection) the parent agency of the Border Patrol, is as follows:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><b><i>MISSION</i></b></p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><i>We are the guardians of our nation&#8217;s borders.<br />
We are America&#8217;s frontline.<br />
We safeguard the American homeland at and beyond our borders.<br />
We protect the American public against terrorists and the instruments of terror.<br />
We steadfastly enforce the laws of the United States while fostering our nation&#8217;s economic security through lawful international trade and travel.<br />
We serve the American public with vigilance, integrity and professionalism.</i></p>
</blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">Considering the critical significance of securing the borders of the United States, the question that has not been raised by our political leaders from either political party, however, is why on earth are Border Patrol agents being used (misused) this way?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When other countries around the world experience humanitarian crises, members of our armed forces are generally sent to those countries to lend assistance. Why then is the administration not similarly using members of the armed forces including the National Guard to deal with the humanitarian component of this crisis along our Southwest Border, thus freeing up our beleaguered Border Patrol agents?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">There is an expression that says, “You can never be too safe!” Considering that our borders (and our immigration laws) is our first line of defense and last line of defense, the corollary of that statement is that our borders can never be made secure enough.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Indeed, our borders are far from secure. While the administration may try to “spin” arrest statistics of the Border Patrol to bolster claims that our borders are secure, the best metric has nothing to do with the numbers of illegal aliens claimed to have been arrested by the Border Patrol. The best metric to determine the true state of U.S. border security can be found in the price and availability of cocaine and heroin, two substances that are not produced in the United States but are smuggled into the United States from foreign countries.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Today our nation is awash in those illegal substances as evidenced by the undeniable fact that police departments across the United States are providing their members as well as other first responders with the antidote to heroin overdoses which are currently at historically high levels. Every gram of these drugs represents a failure of border security.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">How much more contraband will be successfully smuggled into the United States as our Border Patrol agents are diverted from their essential mission of securing our border to change diapers and act as baby sitters and chauffeuring illegal aliens to bus terminals and airports, arguably acting in violation of the laws contained in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).</p>
<p><span style="color: #232323;">Under the provisions of one of the sections of law contained in INA, <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324"><span style="color: #386eff;">Title 8 USC § 1324 &#8211; Bringing in and harboring certain aliens</span></a></span>, it is a felony to aid, abet, encourage or induce aliens to enter our country illegally or remain in our country illegally. It is also a felony to harbor, shield from detection or transport such illegal aliens.</p>
<p>So-called “Sanctuary Cities” would certainly appear to be in violation of this section of law, but that is an issue for another day and another commentary.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Out of stated concerns about public safety, politicians from a number of cities and states have enacted laws to tighten up on the issuance of carry permits for personally owned weapons and concealed carry permits as well as limiting the number of rounds of ammunition that magazines used in semi-automatic handguns can hold.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The theory offered in conjunction with these laws and regulations is to keep high-capacity magazines out of the hands of those who might engage in acts of violence as we have seen in the horrific images and reports of mass shootings. Of course, this presumes that the mentally unbalanced, criminals and terrorists will carefully count the number of bullets they place in their magazines and not seek to purchase or manufacture large capacity magazines. What is never discussed is that the great majority of crimes, especially violent crimes, have a direct nexus with use of illegal drugs and violent gangs which, coincidentally, receive much of their funding from drug trafficking and related crimes. Terror organizations also derive huge sums of money from the sale of illicit drugs.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Once again, these crimes and activities are the direct result of failures of border security.</p>
<p>On June 11, 2014 FrontPage Magazine posted my article, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/michael-cutler/obamas-manufactured-crisis-at-the-border/?utm_source=FrontPage+Mag"><span style="color: #1255cc;">&#8220;Obama’s Manufactured Crisis at the Border.”</span></a></p>
<p>In that article I provided this paragraph from the conclusion of my <a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/3-20-13CutlerTestimony.pdf"><span style="color: #000000;">prepared testimony</span></a> for the March 20, 2013 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing <span style="color: #232323;">on the topic of “<a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/building-an-immigration-system-worthy-of-american-values"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values</span></a>.”</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i>Law enforcement is at its best when it creates a climate of deterrence to convince those who might be contemplating violating the law that such an effort is likely to be discovered and that if discovered, adverse consequences will result for the law violators. Current policies and statements by the administration, in my view, encourages aspiring illegal aliens around the world to head for the United States. In effect the starter’s pistol has been fired and for these folks, the finish line to this race is the border of the United States.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">Of course when I testified before that hearing more than one year ago, no one could have imagined just how bad things would get along the Southwest border, with reverberations being felt from coast to coast and border to border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While local, state and the federal government generally all ramp up enforcement when laws are violated, creating a deterrence against those violations of law, where violations of our borders and our immigration laws are concerned, many of our “leaders” from both political parties trip over themselves to create more incentives for aliens to violate our borders and our immigration laws. They use uncharacteristic creativity to find ways to exacerbate the situation, thereby imperiling the safety and well-being of America and Americans.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This must stop before America suffers yet another catastrophe. The clock is ticking and time, most certainly, is not on our side.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Manufactured Crisis at the Border</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Illegal-Immigration.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233720" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Illegal-Immigration-450x300.png" alt="Illegal-Immigration" width="263" height="175" /></a>On March 20, 2013, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of &#8220;<a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/building-an-immigration-system-worthy-of-american-values">Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values</a><span style="color: #232323;">.&#8221; </span><span style="color: #000000;">I concluded my <a href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/3-20-13CutlerTestimony.pdf">prepared testimony</a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">for that hearing by saying,</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i>Law enforcement is at its best when it creates a climate of deterrence to convince those who might be contemplating violating the law that such an effort is likely to be discovered and that if discovered, adverse consequences will result for the law violators. Current policies and statements by the administration, in my view, encourages aspiring illegal aliens around the world to head for the United States. In effect the starter&#8217;s pistol has been fired and for these folks, the finish line to this race is the border of the United States.</i></p>
<p><i>Back when I was an INS special agent I recall that Doris Meissner who was, at the time, the commissioner of the INS, said that the agency needed to be &#8220;customer oriented.&#8221; Unfortunately, while I agree about the need to be customer oriented what Ms. Meissner and too many politicians today seem to have forgotten is that the &#8220;customers&#8221; of the INS and of our government in general, are the citizens of the United States of America.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">As bad as things were 15 months ago when I testified before that Senate hearing, things have gotten far worse. A human tidal wave of young illegal aliens is now crashing on America&#8217;s southern border each and every day. They have been spurred on by the clear messages being sent to aspiring illegal aliens from around the world that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), an agency that is charged with protecting our homeland, has been reduced to providing concierge service for aliens who violate our borders and violate our immigration laws.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It has been said that we only get one opportunity to make a first impression. Generally speaking, the first laws foreign nationals encounter when they deal with the United States are our immigration laws. The statements of the president and high-ranking members of his administration could not provide more encouragement to people from around the world that our borders and our laws do not matter.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When Congress repeatedly refused to go along with the DREAM Act, the president acted unilaterally invoking what he deemed “prosecutorial discretion” to provide hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who may be as old as 31 years of age with temporary lawful status, including employment authorization, if they <i>claim</i> to have entered the United States before their 16th birthday. I purposely used the term “if they claim” because these hundreds of thousands of un-inspected aliens will most likely not be interviewed nor will agents be made available to conduct investigations into the applications that they file. This is a virtual open invitation to fraud.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On June 17, 2012 Fox News Latino published my op-ed &#8220;<span style="color: #011480;"><a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/06/17/obama-invokes-prosecutorial-discretion-to-circumvent-constitution-and-congress/">Obama Invokes Prosecutorial Discretion to Circumvent Constitution and Congress</a>,&#8221;</span> in which I raised my concerns about this ill-conceived program initiated by the president to do an end-run around Congress, the legislative process and, indeed, the Constitution.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is vital to note that the 9/11 Commission identified immigration fraud as a key tool used by terrorists to enter the United States and embed themselves in the country, yet the issue of the 9/11 Commission, its report or the companion report issued by the 9/11 Commission staff known as <span style="color: #386eff;"><i><a href="http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_Monograph.pdf">The 9/11 Commission Staff Report on Terrorist Travel</a></i></span>, are almost never raised by politicians from either side of the political aisle.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Here is the way that the preface of the staff report on terrorist travel begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>This paragraph is found on page 98 under the title “Immigration Benefits”:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.</i></p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #232323;">While advocates for comprehensive immigration reform refer to aliens who evade the inspections process as simply being “undocumented” in an obvious attempt to minimize the true significance of how they violated our laws, the hard truth is that they are un-inspected. The term my colleagues and I used at the former INS to describe this method of entering the United States is EWI (Entry Without Inspection).</p>
<p>On June 3rd I was <a href="http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=33401397&amp;topic_id=38204812"><span style="color: #386eff;">interviewed</span></a> by Andrew Wilkow on his program on the Blaze TV Network about the crisis on our border created by our own government.</p>
<p>As I noted during my interview, no rational person would get on board an airliner if he (she) saw fellow passengers get onto that airplane after sneaking past the TSA personnel at an airport. Today, however, Americans in every town and city across this vast nation are being forced to live among unknown millions of foreign nationals who evaded a similar inspection process conducted at ports of entry.</p>
<p>One of the sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</a> </span>which enumerates the categories of aliens who are to be excluded. Among these classes are aliens who suffer from dangerous communicable diseases or extreme mental illness. Additionally, convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, terrorists and spies are excluded as well as aliens who would seek unlawful employment or become public charges.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While many Republican politicians may publicly decry the failures of the administration to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws, in point of fact they take no meaningful action because they also want to see a massive influx of aliens into the United States to satisfy the demands of their wealthy campaign contributors. They see the current disaster on our border as a win/win. They can make all of the statements that they want criticizing the president and yet, without lifting a finger, their contributors get what they want. Meanwhile the Republicans don&#8217;t leave any fingerprints at the “scene of the crime.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #232323;">Indeed, what is taking place is a crime, apparently violating the provisions of <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324"><span style="color: #386eff;">Title 8 USC § 1324 &#8211; Bringing in and harboring certain aliens</span></a></span>, a section of law that is comprehended within the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The law states that it is a felony to aid, abet, encourage or induce aliens to enter our country illegally or remain in our country illegally.</p>
<p>Here is an excerpt from that section of law:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).</i></p>
<p><i>Harboring &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) makes it an offense for any person who &#8212; knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals harbors, shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation.</i></p>
<p><i>Encouraging/Inducing &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) makes it an offense for any person who &#8212; encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law.</i></p>
<p><i>Conspiracy/Aiding or Abetting &#8212; Subsection 1324(a)(1)(A)(v) expressly makes it an offense to engage in a conspiracy to commit or aid or abet the commission of the foregoing offenses.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Time and again we hear how our educational system needs to be improved. Now the administration, aided and abetted by politicians from both sides of the political aisle, is encouraging hundreds of thousands of young illegal aliens to run our borders. They are not being deported but being re-united with their illegal alien relatives in the United States and will, undoubtedly be enrolled in schools across the United States, flooding classrooms that are already overcrowded.</p>
<p>Furthermore, studies conducted by the Congressional Office of Management and Budget have shown that it costs 20% to 40% more to educate students who lack English proficiency.</p>
<p>Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the few “good guys” in the United States Senate, wrote an opinion piece for Breitbart that was published on June 9, 2014, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/09/Exclusive-Jeff-Sessions-Obama-Escalating-Lawlessness-at-Border"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>&#8220;Exclusive–Sen. Jeff Sessions: Obama &#8216;Committed to Escalating&#8217; Lawlessness at Border.&#8221;</i></span></a></p>
<p>Here is how his article began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>There is now an unprecedented crisis unfolding at the border. The flow of illegal immigrant youth across the southern border is on track reach 130,000 next year—a projected increase of more than 2,000% from 2011. The White House estimates the cost of “resettling” these illegal immigrants in the United States will reach $2.3 billion in a single year.</i></p>
<p><i>This crisis is a direct and predictable result of the President’s sustained and deliberate campaign to dismantle immigration enforcement. His administration has announced to the world that our nation’s immigration laws will not be enforced and that, in particular, they will not be applied to foreign youth.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The world has heard and heeded the president’s message. A wave of illegal immigration has overwhelmed authorities, producing a completely preventable humanitarian crisis—and further diminishing the integrity of our national borders. And there is but one way for the crisis to end: for the president of the United States to declare to the world: &#8220;Do not attempt to come here illegally. Our border is no longer open. Our laws will be enforced.&#8221;</p>
<p>Overwhelming our resources impacts America and Americans across the country and undermines national security, public safety, public health, education, healthcare and a host of other issues. It also leads more desperate people from around the world to head for the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Rahm Emanuel, a close political ally of President Obama and currently the mayor of Chicago, Illinois has been <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/rahmemanue409199.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">quoted</span></a> as saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<i>You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it&#8217;s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The current crisis found along our southwest border was carefully manufactured by the administration and the president must be made to answer one key question, “Why?”</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 04:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610.png"><img class=" wp-image-226312 alignleft" alt="613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610-450x301.png" width="315" height="211" /></a>The title of the May 23, 2014 “The Daily Mail” article sounded a clear warning:</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2637789/threatening-cartel-billboards-warning-police-choose-silver-lead-come-complete-hanging-mannequins-appearing-texas.html">&#8220;A chilling message from the cartels: Billboards with hanging mannequins warning cops to choose &#8216;silver over lead&#8217; appear in Texas&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The sub-title of the article provides context for the title and the article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them</i></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><i>One reads &#8216;silver or lead&#8217; in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels&#8217; bribes or die</i></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><i>Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with violence may be headed north</i></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">To provide a bit of background, many similar signs have, for years, been posted in Mexico warning the public and especially police, judges and prosecutors that they will either submit to bribery (silver) by the cartels or be shot dead (lead) by the cartels.  In Mexico mutilated bodies of those who were brutally tortured, killed and dismembered by the cartels for non-compliance are often hung off of bridges or billboards.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In El Paso, next to one of the billboards, was a mannequin attired in a black suit hanging from a noose &#8212; chillingly similar to the way that actual bodies are often displayed south of the U.S./Mexican border.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The news report noted that there are concerns that the violence is heading north.  Indeed, the violence has already headed north &#8212; although, thus far, not to the extent we have seen in Mexico.  However, when talking about the violence “heading north” it may well be that for the Mexican cartels “north” may include states located far from the U.S./Mexican border such as New York.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On May 20, 2014 the New York City Council conducted a hearing focused on the skyrocketing increase of heroin inundating New York City.</span></p>
<p>CBS News reported on that hearing in an article: <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/20/special-narcotics-prosecutor-to-address-heroin-epidemic-at-city-council-hearing/">&#8220;Special Narcotics Prosecutor Addresses Heroin Epidemic At City Council Hearing.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Here is how the CBS report began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>That’s the warning from the city’s special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget Brennan, who told a City Council hearing Tuesday that the amount of heroin sold by New York City-based drug traffickers is skyrocketing.</i></p>
<p><i>“So far we’ve seized 288 pounds (in 2014), and that’s in four and a half months — compared to last year, when during the entire year we seized about 177 pounds,” Brennan said. ” … Obviously, we’re going to surpass last year.”</i></p>
<p><i>This year’s heroin seizures have already exceeded those in every year dating back to 1991, WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell reported.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The report went on to note:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Roughly 35 percent of heroin seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration nationwide since October was confiscated in New York state, according to the Times.</i></p>
<p><i>Mexican cartels apparently smuggle the drug up north in tractor-trailers. At rest stops near New York City, the heroin is off-loaded to cars and taken to mills in the Bronx and upper Manhattan, where it is processed and packaged, the Times reported.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On October 12, 2012, an extensive New York Times article,  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/nyregion/on-roosevelt-avenue-in-queens-vice-remains-a-stubborn-presence.html?_r=0">&#8220;Roosevelt Avenue, a Corridor of Vice,&#8221;</a> focused on Jackson Heights, a neighborhood in New York City where narcotics trafficking and illegal immigration are inextricably linked along with prostitution, identity theft and the creation of fraud identity documents.</p>
<p>Inasmuch as many of those who commit many of these crimes are aliens, it would make sense for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to work cooperatively with other law enforcement agencies to combat these crimes.  However, ICE lacks adequate resources and the administration has demonstrated an unwillingness to effectively enforce the immigration laws.</p>
<p>Further complicating matters are the sanctuary policies of the City of New York.  Police officers are prohibited from notifying ICE when they encounter suspected illegal aliens.</p>
<p>For the second half of my 30-year career with the former INS, I was assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.  I spent an inordinate amount of time conducting investigations and making arrests in Jackson Heights.  Bad as things were back then, today&#8217;s situation eclipses what I personally encountered when I was an INS Senior Special Agent.</p>
<p>On September 3, 2013 I joined Congressman Lou Barletta on the campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida to participate in a town hall meeting on immigration sponsored by Radio Station WNDB.  C-SPAN covered of our discussion and posted it under the title:<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314823-1">&#8220;Immigration Policy &amp; Homeland Security.&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">During our discussion I made the point that the best metric for determining border security was the price and availability of cocaine and heroin.</span></p>
<p>I also raised that point when I was was <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/3581676227001/marine-jailed-in-mexico-shines-light-on-relationship-with-us/?playlist_id=940325739001#sp=show-clips">interviewed</a> by Brian Kilmeade on Fox &amp; Friends on May 22<sup>nd</sup> to discuss the arrest of an American Marine who was arrested by Mexican law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>As a rule, transnational criminal organizations, especially narcotics trafficking organizations, put thugs from their home countries in charge of operations in cities across the United States to maintain control over the drugs and the proceeds from the sale of those drugs.  Criminal organizations want to work with those they are most familiar with.  They also know that if they use individuals from their home countries, the criminal organizations can easily take reprisals against the family members of those they send to the United States.  Reprisals are often swift and incredibly brutal.  This helps keep the “employees” of these organizations obedient.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Because New York State is currently the recipient of such a high percentage of the Mexican heroin it is likely that the violence perpetrated by the cartels may well become highest in New York.  The most likely victims of that violence are likely to be members of the ethnic Latino communities where cartel members live and operate.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is hardly “anti-immigrant” for law enforcement elements being brought to bear against aliens who violate our laws.  Yet this is the fatuous claim often made by the immigration anarchists who are eager for a massive amnesty program for unknown millions of illegal aliens. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shortly after taking office, New York City&#8217;s Mayor De Blasio made the astonishing statement that he would provide illegal aliens with identity documents.  I addressed this ill-conceived proposal in an article for Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/nyc-mayor-determined-give-illegal-aliens-id-cards">&#8220;NYC Mayor Determined to Give Illegal Aliens ID Cards.&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Suspects who are arrested are always fingerprinted and photographed to document the arrest and to attempt to determine the true identity of those taken into custody.  Criminals and terrorists use multiple aliases as camouflage to conceal their true identities.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Aliens who claims to not have identity documents may truly not have identity documents or may seek to create a new false identity because their true names are on criminal or terrorist watch lists.  It is bizarre that politicians often herald the arrest of those who create false identity documents, describing such documents as dangerous to public safety and national security, while declaring their cities and states to be “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens and may offer to provide driver&#8217;s licenses to such illegal aliens whose identities cannot be verified.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On May 2, 2013 I was </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/05/02/immigration-expert-system-much-worse-shape-people-think">interviewed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by Megyn Kelly of Fox News about the immigration component to the Boston Marathon terrorist bombing. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On November 21, 2013 the Washington Times published a report, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/21/committee-examines-reports-mexican-drug-cartels-us/">Mexican drug cartels exploit asylum system by claiming ‘credible fear.’</a><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">”</i></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That article served as predication for a House Judiciary Committee hearing on December 12, 2013 on the topic, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/hear_12122013.html">Asylum Abuse: Is it Overwhelming our Borders?</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Advocates for “comprehensive immigration reform” or other such programs, attempt to minimize the significance of America’s borders and immigration laws by referring to aliens who evade the inspections process as simply being “undocumented.”  In reality, aliens who evade the inspections process are </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">un-inspected</i><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</i></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In fact, when I was an INS agent, my colleagues and I referred to the method of entry of aliens who evaded the inspections process as being EWI (</span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">E</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ntry </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">W</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ithout </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">I</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">nspection).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That inspections process is mandated by our immigration laws and by commonsense.  It is the equivalent of a homeowner looking through the peephole on the front door before admitting a stranger into his home.  It was identified as a critical issue by the 9/11 Commission that focused on how to enhance that process to prevent the entry of terrorists.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">No reasonable person would willingly board an airliner if he (she) saw fellow passengers who had evaded the TSA inspections process boarding the plane they were about to travel on. (No one wants a window seat on a cruise missile!)  Yet today we are unwittingly forced to live among unknown millions of illegal aliens who evaded the inspection process conducted at ports of entry.  That inspections process is designed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence poses a threat to national security, public safety or in other ways, the wellbeing of our citizens, our communities and our country. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Among the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docview/slb/html/slb/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-1956.html">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</a>.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> It contains a list of the categories of aliens who are to be prevented from entering the United States.  It has nothing to do with race, religion or ethnicity but everything to do with the safety and well-being of America and Americans.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">America&#8217;s borders and immigration laws are </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">supposed</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to represent our first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals shielding, our nation and our citizens.  Of course this can only happen if our borders are made secure and our immigration laws are effectively enforced and administered.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If ever there was a time for our nation&#8217;s leaders to order, “Shields up” this is it.</span></p>
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